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Time in armagh / John Montague.
LIBRA PR6063.O5 T55 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montague, John.
- Series:
- Gallery books.
- Gallery books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Irish authors.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--20th century.
- Ireland--Poetry.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 57 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland : Gallery Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- Time in Armagh was originally published in 1993 but has not been available in the United States until now. John Montague was born in Brooklyn in 1929 but was raised in Ireland on the family farm in County Tyrone. This sequence of lyrics explores Montague's brutal and painful schooldays at Saint Patrick's College in Armagh. Ireland's ecclesiastical capital, during World War II -- "It is tempting to think that this was the last period of a typical Catholic boarding-school education (all the way back to medieval times), and that the great events happening in the outside world would hasten change in our little one." In these poems ancient and personal histories are intertwined inside a collage of contemporary events. But, as always, Montague celebrates how, even in an atmosphere of organized repression, the instinct for love can prevail.
- ISBN:
- 1852351136
- 1852351128
- OCLC:
- 28600060
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