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The Five Quintets
The Five Quintets is a mammoth poetic adventure undertaken by the celebrated poet Micheal O’Siadhail, representing the culmination of an extraordinary life’s work. The project is vast in scope, attempting nothing less than an exploration of the predicaments of Western modernity. Drawing on inspiration from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Five Quintets brings the premise of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the current day. As Dante explored humanity though mythical characters, O’Siadhail focuses on the humanity of the creators of today’s dreams of perfection: scientists, artists, economists, politicians, politics, and philosophers and theologians from the past speak with each other in this extraordinarily imaginative work. The result is an unparalleled book of instruction for a troubled age. The Five Quintets retrieves and exhibits human gifts our own age may have lost to create a work ‘whose pulse draws us to love. A book of poetry in the category of the epic, the encyclopedic, and the sacred.’ (Peter Ochs, Professor of Judaic Studies, Virginia).
Learning Irish
This text is an introductory course to the Irish language. It provides a pedagogical approach to the ordinary language learner, while also offering the professional linguist with an authentic description of the spoken language.
Modern Irish
This comparative overview of modern Irish dialects surveys the phonology, morphology and syntext of the various dialects and contains a wealth of empirical data organized in an accessible way for the nonspecialist.
Collected Poems
This is a collection of the poet's work drawing from thirteen titles from throughout his life's work.
Learning Irish
Learning Irish is the standard introductory course to the Irish language. The product of many years of original and scholarly research as well as much teaching experience, this book and the accompanying online audio program serve a double function: they provide a sound approach to the ordinary language learner and at the same time furnish the professional linguist with an authentic description of the spoken language. The book does not presuppose prior knowledge of Irish and gives thorough coverage of the grammatical patterns of the language. Texts and exercises are presented in an authentic, interesting, conversational style and in carefully graded stages. The learner is assisted in mastering the pronunciation by the use of phonetic spelling and by the related audio recordings.
Collected Poems
Drawing on thirteen of Micheal O'Siadhails collections, this Collected Poems explores desire, love, trust, and wonder, as well as facing suffering, tragedy, and loss.
One Crimson Thread
For twenty years, celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Bríd, suffered from Parkinson's disease. O'Siadhail's verses explore the ordinary triumph of human fidelity and sound the depths of parting through a 150-sonnet sequence in which love faces wasting illness and the specter of death. There is tenderness, intensity, and gratitude--which will resonate with all who know both love and loss.
Love Life
In "Love Life", one of our most thoughtful and accomplished poets finds a fresh intensity and reach. In four sequences Micheal O'Siadhail tells of a life in love moving through the passionate erotic, the dramas of wooing, promising and quarrelling and the day-by-day of home. The seasons of love unfold - young love opening to intimacy, growth into commitment and the slow transformations of life together. Throughout, the core theme recurs: a lifetime's amazement at the mystery of one woman. The book culminates in the subtleties and variations of growing old while revelling in the love of life a deux.
Art, Imagination and Public Service
A collection of three conversations between artists and public servants. Intended to inspire public servants of all kinds to reconnect fearlessly with their fundamental humanity, the three conversations in Art, Imagination and Public Service present a way of thinking about imaginative, compassionate, and intelligent public service. The book consists of three dialogues: between former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett and poet Micheal O’Siadhail, former UK Supreme Court president Brenda Hale and painter Hughie O’Donoghue, and UK Permanent Secretary Clare Moriarty and musician James O’Donnell. Together they explore how art and imagination can sustain public servants and enable them to find new ways of addressing the problems facing government, parliament, and the law—problems that resist utilitarian responses in which people end up being treated only as statistics in a target-driven world. Through these conversations, the speakers discover surprising connections in approaches to their work.
A Fragile City
After the jazz-like vitality of Hail! Madam Jazz, Michael O'Siadhail explores the delicate networks and the powerful energies of modern life. It is a fragile city of trust and its betrayals. Certainties weaken, boundaries blur, selves and societies are shaken. Yet O'Siadhail's poems resonate with hints of new connections, glimpses of transformation. The poetry is cosmopolitan and passionate. Focusing where public and private life come together, it evokes a world at once complex and vulnerable, but made habitable by trust, hospitality and even celebration. For all the disruption, compassion and wisdom take fresh forms, and the intensity of living 'on the edge' culminates in daring to feast and dance.
