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By Thomas Kinsella

Belief and Unbelief

Belief and Unbelief is No.27 in the Peppercanister series of pamphlets by Thomas Kinsella

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Belief and Unbelief is No.27 in the Peppercanister series of pamphlets by Thomas Kinsella

“Irish poets of a certain age, tormented by the unrepeatable example of the later Yeats, are jockeying a little too obviously for the mantle of prophet, trying too hard for the world-historical note. Thomas Kinsella, by dint of a dry, compassionate irony, perfected over half a lifetime, seems to have slipped quietly past that myth to a late excellence all his own, containing, every so often, the only thing that matters, the moment of moral knowledge.” — Harry Clifton, The Irish Times

“Kinsella is one of the finest poets of the last century, in Ireland or out of it” — Justin Quinn, Poetry Review

ISBN 9781904556749 Paperback
24 pp
June 2007

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  • ISBN: : 9781904556749
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  • Pages: : 24 pp
  • Published: : June 2007

About The Author

Author

Thomas Kinsella, one of the senior and most admired figures in Irish poetry, was born in Dublin in 1928. Abandoning a Science Scholarship at UCD he entered the Civil Service in 1946 where he was assistant Principal Officer in the Dept of Finance. He has taught in the United States and established and administered the Irish Tradition study programme in Dublin, retiring in 1992. He was a director of the Dolmen Press and Cuala Press, Dublin, and in 1972 established the Peppercanister Press whose occasional publications now appear under the Dedalus imprint. His Collected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2001. Kinsella has produced outstanding translations of The Táin and Poems of the Dispossessed, among other titles, and in 1986 edited The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. In June 2007, together with artist Louis Le Brocquy, Thomas Kinsella was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.

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