Michael Hartnett
Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish Gaelic and made a famous declaration in 1975 that he would henceforth write only in Irish. A Farewell to English is his most celebrated poem.
Works
- Anatomy of a ClichePoetry examining how language exhausts itself through cliché and creative depletion
- Selected PoemsSelected poems demonstrating Hartnett's range from Irish-language work to English lyric poetry
- A Farewell to EnglishPoetry in Irish language rejecting English literary tradition and asserting Irish cultural identity
- Inchicore HaikuPoetry collection applying Japanese haiku form to Dublin working-class neighborhood observations
- Collected PoemsComprehensive collection spanning English and Irish-language work with political and cultural focus