tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15552554.post114027784441922945..comments2023-09-26T12:10:49.194+01:00Comments on Irish Poetry: VIEW FROM A BRITCoirí Filíochtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15552554.post-1146487100450977082006-05-01T13:38:00.000+01:002006-05-01T13:38:00.000+01:00i've experianced the sort of moron you've describe...i've experianced the sort of moron you've described on various occasions,the irisher-than-thou uber paddy who thinks anyone with an english accent is a direct descendent of cromwell.<BR/><BR/>these diivys are oblivious to the fact that that people like us are decendent form the same people who fought in 1916,suffered the famine,etc,etc,the list goes on.<BR/><BR/>as the late,great Bill Hicks said Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15552554.post-1140541450226207522006-02-21T17:04:00.000+00:002006-02-21T17:04:00.000+00:00Yeats is the daddy of them all and the master to l...Yeats is the daddy of them all and the master to learn from, so he's my favourite for that side of things. Kavanagh for giving us the licence to be outrageously drunk and alcoholic poets and Seamus the Mossbawn magus for being the U2 of contemporay verse.<BR/><BR/>So to become Ireland's national poet you should be in contact with the otherworld and all the deeply magic and mystical elements YeatsCoirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15552554.post-1140491593364068182006-02-21T03:13:00.000+00:002006-02-21T03:13:00.000+00:00Fascinating. There is so much in all this to pond...Fascinating. There is so much in all this to ponder and digest.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing.<BR/><BR/>So, who is your favorite Irish wrter or poet? Mine is Yeats.<BR/><BR/>Also, you are invited to stop by my site and say hello. I have visitors from many parts of the world. But I could use someone from Ireland.<BR/><BR/>Cheers!Anonymous Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12259024805878478537noreply@blogger.com