Padraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and is an Augustinian priest working in Dublin. He has published four previoius collections with Dedalus, including his new and selected poems, The Last Dreamers, in 1999. In Clinging to the Myth, he further explores issues of faith and belief, particularly in relation to the challenge of personal loss and bereavement. He reflects too on the emerging post-Christian Ireland and uses the voices of 18th century Gaelic poetry to reflect on the sufferings of modern war-torn peoples.
Padraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and is an Augustinian priest working in Dublin. He has published four previoius collect...
This is a reissue of Italian poet Paolo Ruffilli's long poem La gioia e il lutto, in a dual-language edition, Italian and English, with a translation by Irish poet and Augustinian priest Padraig J. Daly. The poem uses a form traditional in both Irish and Italian poetry, where it goes back to Jacapone da Todi and beyond, in which various people comment on the agony and death of Christ, in order to shed light on the suffering and dying of a young man from AIDS.
This is a reissue of Italian poet Paolo Ruffilli's long poem La gioia e il lutto, in a dual-language edition, Italian and English, with a translation ...
JACOPONE DA TODI (Jacopo Benedetti) was born, as his familiar name implies, in the Umbrian hilltop town of Todi in the year 1230. After the death of his wife in an horrendous accident, he discovered that, beneath her clothing, she wore a penitential hairshirt, and this spurred him to become a public penitent and, after a decade of extremely eccentric behaviour, to enter the recently formed Order of Friars Minor of St. Francis of Assisi. In 1298 he was excommunicated and imprisoned for signing a manifesto against Pope Boniface VIII and, following his release, retired to a hermitage. Considered...
JACOPONE DA TODI (Jacopo Benedetti) was born, as his familiar name implies, in the Umbrian hilltop town of Todi in the year 1230. After the death of h...
In this collection, Daly writes of the afterlife of the title, of visions and versions of both Heaven and Hell, but also of the various afterlives, or Ages, we pass through here on Earth.
In this collection, Daly writes of the afterlife of the title, of visions and versions of both Heaven and Hell, but also of the various afterlives, or...