The Thankless Paths to Freedom

by Medbh McGuckian

Has there been a more thankless path in recent history than the one we are on now? Medbh McGuckian's newest volume asks this question, conceived in the years between the centenary anniversaries of the 1916 Rising and the establishment of the Northern Irish State in 1921. Poems are preoccupied with imprisonment, from the County Down Maze Prison to the sentencing of revolutionary nationalist Constance Markievicz, as violence mingles with a dreamlike...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943667128
• ISBN13: 9781943667123
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 96 Pages