
Liberty Hall
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In this remarkable new book - a highly original fusion of poetry, visual images and prose memoirs - Liberty Hall becomes both a real and imaginary space, a physical building and a state of mind in which to be free; a place where the boundaries between verbal and visual, poetry and prose, past and present, city and suburb, local and global, all become fluid. It is a book of numerous journeys: the ritualised crossing of the Liffey from North to South and back again; travels around European cities; and into O'Loughlin's own family history in the first difficult century of the Irish state. He explores the emotional weather through memory, cinema and architecture, arriving in the end at Liberty Hall.
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O'Loughlin remains refreshingly counter-lyrical to the dominant chord of pathos in much contemporary poetry. The engines of his poems are often fuelled by anger. He is a poet not just of language, but of strong opinion and ideas, and one with an international and political dimension. Liberty Hall is a welcome and brilliant addition to his work. -- Paul Perry * Irish Independent * Liberty Hall shows that O'Loughlin remains a disruptive thinker, disinterring platitudes, labels and nationalities. He is a quizzical intellectual, equally at home and displaced in all cultures. This allows him to write intimately about Dublin, while retaining an outsider's perspective when scrutinising fault lines in his family's and his country's history. -- Dermot Bolger * Sunday Business Post * "Liberty Hall, however, is no travel guide. It finds O'Loughlin circling his own life and that of his family; the cities and countries he has called home; Europe as geographical and political construct and the expression of what a poetry collection can be." -- Keith Payne * Dublin Review of Books *More details
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Content
- Intro
- Praise for Poems 1980-2015
- Title
- Copyright
- I
- The Names of the Rat
- What I Had Overlooked
- Days of 1982
- To Those Who Come After
- Summer in Andorra
- Sleeping in Prague
- Leonard Cohen
- A Dutch Life
- Muse
- For Saar on Her Sixteenth Birthday
- Deutschland 1975
- The Hyperlocal
- Rue des Irlandais
- Bastille Day, Labastide, 2007
- Beuys
- Falling
- The Angle of the World
- II
- Transpontine
- Liberty Hall
- Appendix: Meridian
- Acknowledgements
- Image Credits
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