Item category 1: Local Studies Gaeilge

This anthology attempts to give an insight into the tortured mind of the poet, from 1940 when he began to write in his diary right up until the year he died in 1977. It's a small taste of what his full diaries have to offer.

Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the Irish tradition from the other side. His poems...