
'Look Back to Look Forward'
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- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- TEXTS OF O'CONNOR'S TRANSLATIONS
- Note on texts of O'Connor's translations
- The Wild Bird's Nest: Poems from the Irish (1932)
- The Old Woman of Beare Regrets Lost Youth
- Lullaby of Adventurous Love
- The Starkness of Earth
- Poet and Priest
- Autumn (Seathrún Céitinn)
- A Learned Mistress
- Love and Hate
- Prayer for the Speedy End of Three Great Misfortunes
- In Praise of an Indefatigable Liar
- The Student
- The Churls (Dáibhí Ó Bruadair)
- Reverie at Dawn (Aodhagán Ó Rathaille)
- A Grey Eye Weeping (Aodhagán Ó Rathaille)
- A Sleepless Night (Aodhagán Ó Rathaille)
- Last Lines (Aodhagán Ó Rathaille)
- Kilcash
- The Lament for Art O'Leary (Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill)
- Three Old Brothers and Other Poems (1936)
- The Praise of Fiunn
- Prayer at Dawn (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha)
- Lords and Commons: Translations from the Irish (1938)
- The Song of the Heads
- Oisin
- Carroll's Sword
- Storm at Sea
- May
- The Hermit's Song
- Three Cows
- John Johnston (Tadhg Ruadh Ó Conchobhair)
- Hugh Maguire (Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa)
- Death
- I Shall Not Die
- Clancarty (Domhnaill Mac Carthaigh)
- To a Boy
- Childless (Giollabrighde Albanach Mac Conmidhe)
- Mistresses
- Christmas Night (Aodh Mac Aingil)
- Lament for the Woodlands
- Sarsfield
- How Well for the Birds
- The Orphan
- County Mayo (Antoine Raiftearaí)
- The Journeyman
- Song of Repentance (Eoghan Ruadh Ó Súilleabháin)
- Stray Verses: Love like heat and cold
- Stray Verses: A young man at his father's fire
- Stray Verses: 'Tis unknown
- Stray Verses: Conor the king
- Stray Verses: 'Tis my bitter grief the day doesn't last a year
- Stray Verses: The bird that shouts from the willow
- Stray Verses: A little bird
- The Fountain of Magic (1939)
- The Downfall of Heathendom
- Winter
- Autumn
- A Jealous Man
- She Is My Dear
- Fathers and Children
- The Lament for Yellow-Haired Donogh
- The Midnight Court: A Rhythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merryman (1945)
- Leinster, Munster and Connaught (1950)
- The Scholar and the Cat
- The Viking Terror
- To the Blacksmith with a Spade (Eoghan Ruadh Ó Súilleabháin)
- I am Raftery the poet (Antoine Raiftearaí)
- An Anthology of Irish Literature (1954)
- The Drowning of Conaing
- Kings, Lords, and Commons: Irish Poems from the Seventh Century to the Nineteenth Century (1959)
- The Hermitage
- A Prayer for Recollection
- The Priest Rediscovers His Psalm-Book (Máel-Ísu ua Brolchain)
- The Open Door
- A Word of Warning
- Scholars
- The Sweetness of Nature
- Winter
- The Sea
- Generosity
- The King of Connacht
- The End of Clonmacnoise
- Murrough[pviii] Defeats the Danes, 994
- Liadain
- Kiss
- The Goldsmith's Wife
- No Names
- All Gold
- Exile
- Retirement
- A Man of Experience (Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird)
- The Vanished Night (Niall Mór Mac Muireadhaigh)
- To the Lady with a Book
- To Thomas Costello at the Wars
- Brightness of Brightness (Aodhagán Ó Rathaille)
- Hope
- Slievenamon
- Donal Ogue
- Lad of the Curly Locks
- Mary Hynes (Antoine Raiftearaí)
- Endpiece
- The Little Monasteries: Translations from Irish Poetry Mainly of the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries (1963)
- The Seasons
- In the Country
- The Old Poet
- The Thirsty Poet
- The Ex-Poet
- The Angry Poet
- Ordeal by Cohabitation
- Advice to Lovers (Scandlán Mór)
- The Dead Lover
- On the Death of His Wife (Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh)
- Women (Riocard de Búrc)
- A History of Love
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave
- The Nun of Beare
- Colum Cille
- Tears
- Eve
- Praise
- The Last Victory
- A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look (1967)
- Let me, while in Colum's care
- When he was only five years old
- There is one
- The Last Raid (1381) (Gerald Fitzgerald)
- Who's out there in the night
- Note on Irish-language sources and literal translations
- Irish-language sources and literal translations
- Appendix: Translations in journals not republished
- The Madman
- The Stars Are Astand
- The Last Call Up
- The Widower's Bed (a.d. 1392) (Gerald Fitzgerald)
- Bibliography
- Index of O'Connor's translations by first line
- Index of O'Connor's translations by title
- Index of Irish-language sources by first line
- Index of Irish-language sources by title
- Index of Irish-language sources by author
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