Blaris Moor by McGuckian, Medbh

Blaris Moor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930630789)

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Blaris Moor by McGuckian, Medbh

Blaris Moor

$13.95
Blaris Moor by McGuckian, Medbh

Blaris Moor

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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The title of Medbh McGuckian's newest volume, Blaris Moor, refers to a traditional ballad that commemorates the trial and execution in 1797 of four militia men condemned by the authorities as members of the United Irishmen. The United Irishmen were so named because their failed Rebellion of 1798--among the worst bloodshed Ireland has ever known--was meant to unite Protestants and Catholics. Always steeped in sensual longing, McGuckian's poems are historically complex invocations of such volatile landscapes, shedding light on the workings of the private world behind the public conflict.

Author: Medbh McGuckian
ISBN-10: 1930630786
ISBN-13: 9781930630789
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.40d
By Medbh McGuckian
By Medbh McGuckian
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Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950, where she now lives with her husband and four children. She received both a BA and MA from Queen's University, where, alongside Paul Muldoon, she studied under Seamus Heaney. In 1985, she returned to Queen's as the university's first female writer-in-residence. She has also held residencies at the University of Ulster and Trinity College, Dublin, as well as universities in America. Medbh McGuckian published her first two chapbooks in 1980 before her first full-length collection, The Flower Master (1982), won the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an award from the Ireland Arts Council.

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