Gather round me
Subtitle: the best of Irish popular poetry
By: edited by Christopher Cahill.
Contributors: Cahill, Christopher.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: English poetry -- Irish authors.; Irish poetry -- Translations into English.; Songs, English -- Ireland -- Texts.; Popular literature -- Ireland.; Ireland -- Poetry.
Genres: Translations into English.; Texts.; Poetry.
Description: Drawing on work published and shared from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, an anthology presents the best of Irish popular poetry, found in newspapers, heard in pubs, or scribbled down in diaries, and including work by anonymous balladeers as well as famous Irish poets such as W.B. Yeats and Brendan Behan.