Introduction by Patricia Coughlan. Cola’s Furie (1646) by Henry Burkhead was published in Kilkenny during the Catholic Confederacy. A fascinating composite of …
With an introduction by Anne Fogarty. Published in an edition of 250 copies. Cynthia (1604) is a fascinating sonnet sequence by Richard Nugent, a member of a …
William Dunkin (1705–65) is the most undeservedly neglected of eighteenth-century Irish poets. Swift called him ‘the best English poet in the Kingdom’ and his c…