Wily chronicler of an Ireland yearning to be reborn

For decades Paul Durcan has mapped our Free State as it descended into Hell. No other poet was so well-prepared for this prolonged and bitter cartography. Thomas McCarthy on his latest collection

Sat, 14 Apr, 2012 - 01:00

Thomas McCarthy

Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being

Paul Durcan

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