Volume 22, Number 8 · May 15, 1975
Within the Pale
By Karl Miller
An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry
by Derick Thomson
St. Martin's, 335 pp., $10.00
The Faber Book of Irish Verse
edited by John Montague
Faber & Faber, 400 pp., £3.50 (to be published in the United States by Macmillan)
In the previous issue [NYR, May 1], I wrote about certain works by the Irishman Flann O'Brien—in particular, his novel The Poor Mouth, in which the Gaelic language is put to wonderful use, in which 'the sweet wee maternal tongue' (a description once borrowed by O'Brien) tramples on its false friends among the folklorists and Gaelfanciers. I want now to add a few words, from the standpoint of someone beyond the Gaelic-speaking pale, about two recent books which contain translations from the Scottish and Irish Gaelic respectively.
Review, 2392 words
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