Look Back to Look ForwardWhile Frank OConnor was known primarily as one of Irelands finest short story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift he stands out above all the rest. Between the mid 1920s and the mid 1960s, OConnor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of this centuries old

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The Dolmen Press

’ ANTOINE PERRAUD

a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to the island of Inis Breac to paint

Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson

funny-serious work

organizing a soup-kitchen

Nuala Gunn

It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky

When an unexpected incident threatens to shatter a delicate balance between the natural and workaday

One of the many legends about Donnelly claimed that he so impressed the Prince Regent (later King George the Fourth) that he was granted a knighthood