Library Guides: Literature in the Irish Language: Literature

Anthologies

The Field Day anthology of Irish writing by Seamus Deane
Call Number: PB 1345 .F53
Publication Date: 1991
Described as 'the most comprehensive anthology of Irish writing ever published', this three-volume anthology includes literature in both languages from the earliest instances of Irish writing.
English translations are included of Irish language literature.
The Field Day anthology of Irish writing. Irish women's writing and traditions by Angela Bourke
Call Number: PB 1345 .F53 2002
Publication Date: 2002
This two-volume anthology includes a wide range of writing by and about women, including letters and memoirs as well as the genres of creative literature.
An Duanaire, 1600-1900: Poems of the dispossessed by Seán Ó Tuama; Thomas Kinsella
Call Number: PB 1424 .D8 1981b
ISBN: 0851053645
Publication Date: 1981
The anthology, compiled and edited by Seán Ó Tuama, includes translated poems by Thomas Kinsella on facing pages.

Edited and translated texts are available in the library, many in the Irish language area (PB) on the 8th floor.

The website of the Irish Texts Society includes information on the texts listed.

Use the library catalog to find texts by the following authors:

Aogán Ó Rathaille
Pádraigín Haicéad
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
Eochaidh Ó hEoghasa
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
Brian Merriman

(Use the anthologies to learn about authors you may find interesting.)

Some collected works and anthologies:

Irish Bardic Poetry/ Osborne Bergin. PB 1351 .I75 1970

Dánta Grádha: Love Songs from the Irish (A.D. 1350-1750). PB 1360 .D352 1980

Five Seventeenth Century Political Poems. Cecile O'Rahilly. PB 1351 .O68

Nua-Dhuanaire/ Pádraig de Brún, Breandán Ó Buachalla & Tomás Ó Concheanainn. 3 volumes. PB 1359 .N94