The Cage and Aviary Bird Handbook by Tony Tilford

The Cage and Aviary Bird Handbook by Tony Tilford

From the canonical to the contemporary, this dual language anthology showcases the best of Gabriel Fitzmaurice's translations from Irish. Described as 'one of our leading translators of Irish poetry into English' by Seamus Cashman, his translations are 'indispensable' (Bernard O'Donoghue), as they perfectly capture the metre and musicality of formal, classical poems, bringing them across, sound and sense, into English. He is equally skilled at translating free verse. From D ibh Bruadair and Aog n Rathaille in the seventeenth century, through modernists M irt n Dire in and Se n R ord in, to the contemporary ine N Ghlinn and Cathal Searcaigh, this selection collects some of the best and most memorable poems in the Irish language, ranging from the displacement and dispossession of the Irish in centuries past to genocide in Gaza today. It contains the great love songs and poems, poems of emigration, poems of people and place, a paean to the quenching of thirst, a prayer and An Phurg id/The Purge, M che l hAirtn ide's long meditation on poets and poetry today. It is essential reading, not only for lovers of poetry but for anyone interested in the Irish tradition.