Michael Hartnett (original) (raw)

Michael Hartnett /Micheál Ó hAirtnéide was born in Co Limerick in 1944 and lived in Dublin for many years. His collections include Anatomy of a Cliché (Dublin, Poetry Ireland Editions 4, The Dolmen Press, 1968); The Old Hag of Beare (a translation from the Irish, Dublin, New Writers Press, 1969); Selected Poems (New Writers Press, 1970); Tao (versions from the Chinese, Dublin, Supplement to Arena, 1963, New Writers Press, 1972); Gypsy Ballads, a version of the Romancero Gitano of Frederico Garcia Lorca (Dublin, The Goldsmith Press, 1973, with a portrait of the poet by Edward Maguire); A Farewell to English (The Gallery Press, Dublin, 1975, enlarged edition 1978); Prisoners (The Gallery Press/ Mass. Deerfield Booklets, 1977); Adharca Broic (The Gallery Press, 1978); An Phurgóid (Dublin, Coiscéim, 1983); Do Nuala: Foighne Chrainn (Coiscéim, 1984); Collected Poems, Volume I (Dublin, Raven Arts Press/ Manchester, The Carcanet Press, 1984); Inchichore Haiku (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1985); Ó Bruadair, Selected Poems of Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (The Gallery Press, 1985);Collected Poems Volume II (Raven Arts Press, 1987/The Carcanet Press, 1987); A Necklace of Wrens , Poems in Irish and English (The Gallery Press,1987); Poems to Younger Women (The Gallery Press, 1988); Dánta Naomh Eoin na Croise (translation of the poems of St John of the Cross, Coiscéim, 1991); The Killing of Dreams (The Gallery Press, 1992); Haicéad (The Gallery Press, 1993); New and Selected Poems (The Gallery Press, 1995); Ó Rathaille The Poems of Aodhaghán Ó Rathaille (The Gallery Press, 1999); and Collected Poems (The Gallery Press, 2001). He translated the Selected Poems of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Raven Arts Press, 1986); co-wrote a play, An Lasair Choille, with Caitlín Maude (1961) and was co-editor, with James Liddy and Liam O'Connor, of Arena (1963-1965), and with Desmond Egan, of Choice (The Goldsmith Press, 1973). He was also poetry editor of The Irish Times for a period. He was a recipient of an American Fund Literary Award, and a member ofAosdána. Michael Hartnett/ Micheál Ó hAirtnéide died on October 13, 1999.