By Pádraig J Daly

Clinging to the Myth

In Clinging to the Myth Pádraig J Daly further explores issues of faith and belief, particularly in relation to the challenges of personal loss and bereavement.

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In Clinging to the Myth Pádraig J Daly further explores issues of faith and belief, particularly in relation to the challenges of personal loss and bereavement.

In Clinging to the Myth, Augustinian priest and poet Pádraig J Daly 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.

ISBN 978 1 904556 58 9 paperback
140 x 216 mm, 90 pp
2007

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About The Author

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Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1943 and works as an Augustinian priest in Dublin. He has published several collections of poetry, among them The Last Dreamers: New & Selected Poems (1999), The Other Sea (2003), Afterlife (2010) and God in Winter (2015). His translations include a selection from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti, Libretto (1999), which feature in The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and Paolo Ruffilli's Joy and Mourning (reissued 2007), among others. Daly comments: "I write poetry as a way of understanding, questioning and celebrating God and the world." “Daly offers the most sustained attempt at serious religious poetry in Ireland and the distinct pleasure of the exquisite use of language.” — John F. Deane