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Donoghue, Denis, “Being Irish Together,” in Sewanee Re-
view,Vol. 84, No. 1, Winter 1976, pp. 129-33.
Grennan, Eamon, “Wrestling with Hartnett,” in Southern Re-
view,Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer, 1995, p. 655.
Howard, Ben, “Review of Selected and New Poems,” in Po-
etry,May 1996, pp. 109-11.
Simmons, James, Ten Irish Poets,Carcanet Press, 1974.
For Further Study
Hoagland, Kathleen, ed., 1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The
Gaelic and Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present,
William S. Konecky, 1999.
This anthology shows how the Irish tongue evolved
over the centuries, to the Anglicized form that Hart-
nett turned his back on with this poem.
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, Ancestral Voices: Religion and Na-
tionalism in Ireland,The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
O’Brien is one of the most respected contemporary
observers of Irish politics. His analysis of the vio-
lence in Northern Ireland is very helpful to under-
stand the sentiments Hartnett expresses in this poem.
Taylor, Peter, Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein,TV
Books, Inc., 1999.
Based on Taylor’s award-winning documentary that
was telecast in England and America, this book gives
a contemporary view of the terrorist acts and the ne-
gotiations for peace that divide Northern Ireland.A Farewell to English