Apathy Is Out: Selected Poems - Ni Ceadmhach Neamhshuim: Rogha Danta (O Riordain Sean)(Paperback / softback)

Se n R ord in (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 'seek to answer fundamental questions about the nature of human existence and the place of the individual in a universe without meaning' (Gear id Denvir). Many of R ord in's poems came out of his struggle with the isolation, guilt and loneliness of life in mid-century Catholic Ireland experienced in Cork, the native locale also of the poet Greg Delanty, translator of Apathy Is Out. R ord in's poems have been translated by many poets, but until now no single writer has translated the majority of the poems. This collection gives a much more unified sense of R ord in's work, catching the
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