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Title: |
The Wild Goose |
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| By (author): |
Kevin Gallagher |
| ISBN10-13: |
0931507448 : 9780931507441 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x6mm |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Weight: |
.126 Kg. |
| Published: |
Loom Press - May 2022 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| The Wild Goose was a hand-made magazine of verse written and edited by John Boyle Oâ Reilly aboard the Hougoumont, the last ship to transport British convicts to Australia. Oâ Reilly (1844-1890) was an Irish Fenian sentenced to life imprisonment for infiltrating the British army and attempted mutiny. Oâ Reilly escaped from Australia aboard a whaling ship and settled in Boston where he rose to become an editor of The Pilot, a noted poet, and abolitionist.In a sense, these poems are a little magazine conceived of and drafted in 2018 and 2019 when Gallagher was a poet-in-residence at the Heinrich Boll Cottage, on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. In addition to a sequence on Oâ Reilly, the poems in this book engage the Irish landscape, and the history and myth that formed the identity of some of the Gallagherâ s ancestors until British colonialism and associated famine took them to Massachusetts. |
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