Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of essays and poems presented by the National Library of Ireland Society to Donall O Luanaigh, Keeper of Collections at the National Library of Ireland. The Society is an association of 'friends' of the National Library of Ireland, and most of the contributors to this volume have recently lectured to the Society or given poetry readings. Contributors: Gerard Lyne (NLI), Gerard Long (NLI), Ciaran O hOgartaigh & Margaret O hOgartaigh (DCU), L.P. Curtis Jr. (Brown U.), Felix M. Larkin, Deirdre McMahon (Mary I.), Diarmuid Whelan (UCC), Ellen Murphy, Maurice Harmon (UCD), Adrian Frazier (NUIG), Adrian Hardiman (Judge of the Supreme Court), Dennis O'Driscoll, Fergus Gillespie (NLI), Sighle Breathnach Lynch (National Gallery of Ireland), Brendan O Donoghue, Ian d'Alton, Finola Kennedy, Wesley Hutchinson (Sorbonne, Paris), Mary Beard (Newnham College, Cambridge), frontispiece by Brian Lalor; and poems by Theo Dorgan, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Seamus Heaney, Brian Lalor, Gerard Lyne, and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne.
