The Boys of Bluehill
| By: | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin |
| Publisher: | Gallery Press |
| Published: | May 2015 |
| Pages: | 72 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Hardback |
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Music permeates the collection which also features elegies and poems about language. A beautiful image of her father, ‘a mountain becoming a mountain range’, might describe her own work. Just as she refreshes an Old Irish anonymous poem her own original, commemorative art renews the world.
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