Cannons should roar, fireworks should light up the sky, and cheering crowds should throng to the streets at the news of the rebirth of 1000 Years of Irish Poetry, to risk resuscitating an old clichà©: a veritable treasure trove. Within its covers you will unearth nuggets, and indeed slabs of literary gold, of lyric poetry, of satire, of folk songs, of wild humor, of war, of love and sadness and longing and death. With the republication of this book, the Irish recover under their rook of stars all the great poets and writers who have been falsely claimed by the Saxon crown and its minions, even our reprobates. I envy any man, woman, or child about to embark on this glorious poetic journey, and if you were to pick up this book and not walk through life with it as your very own possession, there is not a love poem of loss to salve your wounded if unknowing heart.
— Malachy McCourt, from the Introduction

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