Michael Harnett was born in Croom Hospital, County Limerick. So too is the business he owns. Again, here we are reminded of the parallels that exist between Ita and the poet who had only recently turned his back on the Dublin literary scene and a burgeoning poetic reputation and had moved with his young family to rural West Limerick to follow his own ‘exquisite dream’ (Walsh 100). The characters of the play are seen by Gar as a somewhat pathetic group. Without prejudice, it also has to be said that he demonstrates a deeper knowledge of all local flora and fauna than could be reasonably expected of a ‘townie’! Stanza 34 mentions seven iconic public houses.

All but one remains today – Gerry Flynn’s is now Clery’s having been owned by Paddy Sammon for a while and then been won in a raffle sometime before the Celtic Tiger began to roar in earnest! Saturday afternoon offers a wealth of fun, with a literary tour of Hartnett’s Newcastle West, the poetry slam and a chance to hear the Yukeladies. ‘Wrestling with Ó Bruadair’, in Mac Reamoinn, S., The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry (London: Allen Lane, 1982). This is a collection that balances beauty and harmony, the poems are restrained but deeply felt, the voice assured, meaning is revealed slowing like an uncovering of essence, something essential and elemental. In June 1974 he had made his famous proclamation from the stage of the Peacock Theatre in Dublin that henceforth he would write only in Irish. For months now he had been led to believe that as this day unfolded he would not only ‘seek’ but ‘find’ his Christ. He also fondly remembers The Sunset Lounge in The Square (later to become the TSB Bank premises and now Ladbrokes Betting Office) which was owned by Bill Hinchy and his wife Kit. At the root of this escapist fantasy lies a deep-seated dissatisfaction within every character with themselves and their environment. Characteristically, Hartnett executes (pun intended!) dealt with Gar’s physical act of emigration, The Loves of Cass McGuire deals with the psychology of returning and this  marks it out as a very relevant work – indeed, it can be said of Cass, like many a returning exile, she comes back to a home that does not exist except in her fantasy. She has returned to a world she cannot recognise and the play explores the difficulties she has in coming to terms with a life not as she imagined and the exclusions society now imposes upon her.

‘My dear brethren, boys and girls, today is a glorious day! On the face of it, it is a ‘retreat’ from a public event to a more private life, and Hartnett teases out the societal and psychological implications which this act brings about. He tells us that he learnt much on that small farm during those lean years in the forties and early fifties.

Pulled Pork and Poetry with Tom Flavin and Edward O’Dwyer offers a lunchtime bonanza of cooking creativity, good food and some good lines. There was a fruit-cake, jelly and custard; the dinner of the year.

It is a celebration of his native place in which he describes mainly the period 1948 – 51, the time of his childhood; it also describes the Newcastle West of the late 1970s during which time he lived in Templeglantine (McDonagh/Newman, p.107). Here, there was no ‘furtive country coupling’, hiding affections from friends and priest. Section 6 The poetry slam carries a purse of €300 for Best Original Poem and €100 for Best Read Hartnett Poem. The Iron Bridge (Curling’s Bridge) as seen in a National Library of Ireland photograph from 1903. Section 3 of ‘A Farewell to English’ centres on Hartnett’s dissatisfaction with the cultural, political, and literary misappropriation and misuse of the Irish language. Collected Poems, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2001. One credible explanation for many of these claims is that he wanted to portray his grandmother as the quintessential  ‘nineteenth-century woman’ who never came to terms with the political, social and cultural changes which were brewing in Ireland in the late nineteenth century. And as the late poet and essayist, Denis O’Driscoll noted of Michael: “His tastes in poetry, as in food, could range far beyond Munster.”.

The Victorian Christmas was not yet compulsory. He is moved by the visits of Master Boyle and ‘the boys’ and is in a distressed state when they leave. However, for those familiar with his poetry it has to be said that he reserves an even greater opprobrium for bishops! Founded over fifty years ago, Edinburgh University Press became a wholly Mary O’Malley joint winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize 2018. This essay, therefore, is an effort to throw some light on this woman and gently probe her background and genealogy and it also seeks to untangle some of the myths, many self-generated, which have grown up around Michael Hartnett himself. Declan is the author of several books, among them, Inventing Ireland, and most recently, After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present. An open lorry went by to jeers and obscenities; the pluckers, shawled and snuff-nosed, on their way to a flea-filled poultry store to pluck turkeys at nine pence a head.


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