Research Catalog

Title

Ruined pages : selected poems / Padraic Fiacc ; edited by Gerald Dawe & Aodán Mac Póilin.

Author

Fiacc, Padraic, 1924-

Publication

Belfast : Blackstaff ; [Chester Springs, Pa.] : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dawe, Gerald, 1952-
• Mac Póilin, Aodán, 1948-

Description

171 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Northern Ireland > Poetry
• Northern Ireland

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 for the Milberg Irish Poetry Collection.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 167) and index.

Contents

• Der Bomben Poet -- Red Man country -- The New York night -- The other man's wound -- Master clay -- Lives of a student -- Theme from a gloss -- Prayer -- Abandoning studies -- Leaving the monastery -- The spring finder -- The boy and the geese -- Jackdaw -- Storm bird -- At autumn birds of passage -- Old poet -- North man -- A childhood friend -- Alive Alive O -- Our fathers -- An old person is found dead in the Low Markets -- A still sinking man -- London again -- The donkey years -- The let hell go of it -- Brendan gone -- Tenth-century invasion -- Hurricane Deirdre -- The hunted lovers -- Gloss -- The ghost -- Saint Colman's song for flight -- Seed -- After the storm -- Circling to land -- Two solitudes -- Burnt orange -- Storm at sea -- The poet and the night -- Orange man -- Against oncoming civil war -- More terrorists -- First movement -- A child of hatred -- The fall -- Vengeance -- Haemorrhage -- East Street -- Bombay Alley/an Ora pro nobis -- The wearing of the black -- Son of a gun.
• Standing water (A rag) -- Morning dark -- An old man has a bad dream -- Our father -- Goodbye to our father -- Icon -- Soldiers -- Fire light -- At Christian Place -- A Christian soldier song -- Enemies -- A still floating child -- The black and the white -- The British connection -- Elegy for a 'Fenian get' -- Elegy in 'the Holy Land' -- Victory on Ship Street -- A slight hitch -- Goodbye to Brigid/an Agnus Dei -- Intimate letter 1973 -- Enemy encounter -- Kids at war -- Wee fellas -- Introit -- Tears -- Christ goodbye -- Glass grass -- Midnight assassination -- Night of the morning -- The wrong ones -- Dark night of the mill hag -- Rent boy -- Credo credo -- The ditch of dawn -- Internee -- Dirty protest -- The long kill/a Commeratio pro defunctus -- Hell's Kitchen: An Autobiographical Fragment.

ISBN

• 0856405299
• 9780856405297

LCCN

94165119

OCLC

• ocm30473795
• 30473795
• SCSB-2030880

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library