He is both everywhere and nowhere. He has published some 170 books – travelogues, poetry, novels, collections of haiku, not to mention translations into Irish of, among others, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Rabindranath Tagore, Günter Grass, Zhang Ye, Georg Trakl and Janak Sapkota. More than any other Irish poet, Rosenstock transcends national boundaries. Pádraig de Paor has suggested that, for Rosenstock, ‘the Irish language is the quickest route out of a self-obsessed Ireland to a cosmopolitanism beyond Anglo-Irish navel-gazing’.