Last Geraldine Officer

by Thomas McCarthy

The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ("Geraldine") family that has tilled the soil of County Waterford, absorbed its language and history, and sent young men back to British regiments, particularly the Irish Guards. Focusing on his Gaelic-speaking soldier-poet, Sir Gerald FitzGerald,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085646421X
• ISBN13: 9780856464218
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"