The Dubliner Walter Quin first came to prominence at the court of James VI, where he wrote poetry in support of the Stuart succession to Elizabeth I’s throne. T…
Landgartha (1641), first performed in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day 1640, was the last play produced before political unrest forced the closure of Dublin’s only th…
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…
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 …
Introduction by Patricia Coughlan. Cola’s Furie (1646) by Henry Burkhead was published in Kilkenny during the Catholic Confederacy. A fascinating composite of …
Ter Tria (1658) by the Cavan-born, Puritan poet Faithful Teate (c.1626–66) is a neglected masterpiece and a remarkable addition to the canon of 17th-century dev…
