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This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry
with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of
Gaelic verse. It offers poems that are erotic, rude, seditious and
transgressive; that deal with love, sex, the body, politics and
violent passion; and that are by turns humorous, disturbing,
shocking and enlightening. In scholarly introductions in Gaelic and
English the editors give contexts for the creation, transmission
and value of these poems, as historical documents, as joyous – or
tragic – works of art, as products of a culture and
counter-cultures that have survived centuries of neglect,
suppression or threats of being ‘burned by the hand of the common
executioner’. After reading this book, you won’t think of
Gaelic culture in quite the same way ever again.
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