beautiful works ranging in topics. my copy is only three years old and already worn almost completely out from so many readings.

The Water Horse is a collection of fabulous Gaelic poetry ably translated for an English reading audience and laced with the power of myth from beginning to end. This bi-lingual collection (Gaelic on the left/English on the right) is an enthusiastically recommended acquisition for academic poetry collections, and will very aptly serve to introduce the reading public to an undeniable modern Irish poetry with an antiquarian bard's feeling for language and imagery. Eithne The Hun: The earliest woman to be cited/in that might tome of Keating--/The Growth of Learning in Ireland--/figured children were for eating.//She'd been fostered out, seemingly,/with the Decies tribe of Munster/who reared her on a diet/of the fatted flesh of youngsters//so as to bring on her menarche/before she was well ready/and get land they were promised/out of the blade who might wed her://but the lamb must still be waiting/to be led to the altar/by the mess they've just made/of those three in Gibraltar.