The Miraculous Parish / An Paroiste Mioruilteach: Selected Poems

A generation before the groundbreaking achievements of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Rita Ann Higgins, and others, and in more daunting social circumstances, Maire Mhac an tSaoi’s poetry speaks to and from the intimate experience of women at a time when women’s voices were largely inaudible, on the margins of Irish literature and society. This bilingual selection of her work is the first substantial collection to introduce her poems to an English-language audience and a reminder to readers of Irish as to why she is one of the most significant poets to emerge since the beginning of the language revival almost a century and a half ago.