Selected Poems / Rogha Dánta - Ó Direáin, Máirtín
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Máirtín Ó'Direáin was born and raised on the Aran Islands--a world made famous by the writers of the literary revival, chiefly J. M. Synge--but worked in the civil service, first in Galway and then in Dublin for the rest of his adult life. This became the basis of a tension in his work between the rural and the urban. Editor Frank Sewell writes that Ó Direáin's "most important theme" was "the conflict and contradictions (for individuals and nations) that derive from the exchange between tradition and modernity...He frequently favored rural values over modern city modes of living," while "in…mehr

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Máirtín Ó'Direáin was born and raised on the Aran Islands--a world made famous by the writers of the literary revival, chiefly J. M. Synge--but worked in the civil service, first in Galway and then in Dublin for the rest of his adult life. This became the basis of a tension in his work between the rural and the urban. Editor Frank Sewell writes that Ó Direáin's "most important theme" was "the conflict and contradictions (for individuals and nations) that derive from the exchange between tradition and modernity...He frequently favored rural values over modern city modes of living," while "in politics, he was (unsurprisingly) an anti-imperialist internationalist. But what this means is that, in practice, he was open to receiving art and ideas both from his own culture (past and present) and also from a wide range of languages and cultures." Simple in style, but deep in reflection, these poems beautifully convey the dilemmas of a poet of a minority language and traditional culture in a rapidly developing era. Edited and translated by Frank Sewell, with an introduction.
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Often called "Ireland's unacknowledged poet laureate," Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988) was one of the foremost poets of the Irish language in the 20th century. Born and raised on Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands, he grew up speaking Irish only. He later lived in Galway and Dublin and worked as a civil servant. His poetry often deals with the tension between the rural and the urban, the traditional and the modern, and though deeply rooted in the Gaelic tradition, shows influence from wider European writers. Dr Frank Sewell's PhD research into the poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was published as a monograph by Oxford University Press: Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra (Oxford: OUP, 2000). Since then he has continued to write chapters and essays on the 'dual tradition' of twentieth-century Irish poetry in both English and Irish, including studies of work by Gabriel Rosenstock and Ciaran Carson. Other publications include translations of Irish poetry and short stories, Japanese poetry, and also original poetry. In addition Frank has edited several anthologies of contemporary writing.