Thomas Kinsella (born May 4, 1928) is an Irish poet, translator, editor and publisher. His work, which is influenced by the modernist tradition, is considered to be amongst the most complex and intellectually demanding Irish poetry of the second half of the 20th century. May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A 1907 engraving of William Butler Yeats, one of Irelands best-known poets. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... Mountebanks ...

Early life and work

Kinsella was born in Inchicore, Dublin but spent much of his childhood with relatives in rural Ireland. He was educated through the medium of Irish at the Model School, Inchicore, and the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell's School. He entered University College Dublin in 1946, initially to study science. After a few terms in college, he took up a post in the Irish Civil Service and continued his university studies at night, having switched to humanities. Inchicore (Inse Chór in Irish) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland south of the River Liffey and west of the city centre, in the Dublin 8 postal district. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a world-wide community of religious brothers of the Catholic church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The civil service (an stát-sheirbhís in Irish) of the Republic of Ireland consists of two broad components, the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State. ...

His first poems were published in the university magazine The National Student and in Poetry Ireland. His first pamphlet, The Starlight Eye (1952), was published by Liam Miller's Dolmen Press, as was Poems (1956), his first book-length publication. These were followed by Another September (1958), Moralities (1960), Downstream (1962), Wormwood (1966), and the long poem Nightwalker (1967). 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Liam Miller (born February 13, 1981 in Cork) is an Irish football player whose favoured position is central midfield though he can also play on the right wing. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Marked as it was by the influence of W.H. Auden and dealing with a primarily urban landscape and with questions of romantic love, Kinsella's early work marked him out as distinct from the mainstream of Irish poetry in the 1950s and 1960s, which tended to be dominated by the example of Patrick Kavanagh. Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ... Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 - 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet. ...

Translations and editing

At Miller's suggestion, Kinsella turned his attention to the translation of early Irish texts. He produced versions of Longes Mac Unsnig and The Breastplate of St Patrick in 1954 and of Thirty-Three Triads in 1955. His most significant work in this area was collected in two important volumes. The first of these was The Táin, (Dolmen 1969 and Oxford 1970), a handsome and vigorous version of the Táin Bó Cúailnge illustrated by Louis le Brocquy. 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Táin Bó Cúailnge (the driving-off of cows of Cooley, more usually rendered The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. ... Louis le Brocquy (born November 10, 1916) is an Irish painter. ...

The second, later, major work of translation was an anthology of Irish poetry An Duanaire: 1600-1900, Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), translated by Kinsella and edited by Seán Ó Tuama. He also edited Austin Clarke's Selected Poems and Collected Poems (both 1974) for Dolmen and The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1986). 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Austin Clarke the Irish poet. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Later poetry

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In 1972, he started Peppercanister Press to publish his own work. This reflected an interest in the publishing process that dates back at least as far as helping set the type for The Starlight Eye twenty years earlier. The first Peppercanister production was Butcher's Dozen, a satirical response to the Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday. This poem drew on the aisling tradition and specifically on Brian Merriman's Cúirt An Mheán Óiche. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Widgery tribunal was an investigation into who was to blame for the death of 27 people on Bloody Sunday. ... The Bogside area viewed from the city walls Bloody Sunday is the term used to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment, during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights... The aisling (Irish aislinn), pronounced ashling, or vision poem is a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry. ... Brian Merriman (1749 – July 27, 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. ...

From this point on, Kinsella's work ceases to be Audenesque and the influence of American modernism, particularly the poetry of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Robert Lowell becomes evident. In addition, the poetry starts to focus more on the individual psyche as seen through the work of Carl Jung. These tendencies first appear in the poems of Notes from the Land of the Dead (1973) and One (1974). Ezra Pound in 1913. ... William Carlos Williams Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. ... Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was a highly regarded mid-twentieth-century American poet. ... Carl Jungs autobiographical work Memories , Dreams, Reflections, Fontana edition Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil, – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) (IPA: ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In the 1980s, books like Her Vertical Smile (1985) Out of Ireland (1987) and St Catherine's Clock (1987) marked a move away from the personal to a poetry including historical trends. This move continued into a sometimes darkly satirical focus on more a contemporary landscape through the late 1980s and 1990s in such books as One Fond Embrace (1988), Personal Places (1990), Poems From Centre City (1990) and The Pen Shop (1996). His Collected Poems appeared in 1996 and again in an updated edition in 2001. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about the year 2001. ...

Bibliography

Poetry

• Poems (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1956);
• Another September (Dolmen, 1958);
• "Poems & Translations" (New York: Atheneum, 1961);
• Downstream (Dolmen, 1962);
• "The Clergyman" [Anonymously pbd.] (Dublin: St Sepulchre's Press, 1965);
• "Tear" (Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1969);
• Nightwalker and Other Poems (Dolmen, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1968; New York, Knopf, 1969);
• "Ely Place" (Dublin: Tara Telephone Publications/ St Sepulchre's Press, 1972);
• Butcher's Dozen (Dublin, Peppercanister, 1972);
• The Good Fight (Peppercanister 1973);
• Notes from the Dead and Other Poems (Knopf, 1973);
• Fifteen Dead (Dolmen, Peppercanister, 1979);
• One and Other Poems (Dolmen, Oxford University Press, 1979);
• Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 (Dolmen 1979; Winston Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1979);
• "One Fond Embrace" (Deerfield, MA: Deerfield Press, 1981);
• St Catherine's Clock (Oxford University Press, 1987);
• "Blood & Family" (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988);
• Poems From City Centre (Oxford University Press, 1990);
• Madonna and Other Poems (Peppercanister, 1991);
• Open Court (Peppercanister, 1991);
• The Pen Shop (Peppercanister, 1997);
• The Familiar (Peppercanister, 1999);
• Godhead (Peppercanister, 1999);
• Citizen of the World (Peppercanister, 2000);
• Littlebody (Peppercanister, 2000);
• Collected Poems 1956-2001 (Oxford University Press, 2001);
• Marginal Economy (Peppercanister, 2006);
• Collected Poems 1956-2001 (Wake Forest University Press, 2006).

Prose

• The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland (Carcanet, 1995);
• Readings in Poetry (Peppercanister, 2006).

Translation

• An Táin Bó Cuailgne, which he published as The Táin, with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy (Dolmen, 1969);
• An Duanaire - Poems of the Dispossessed, an anthology of Gaelic poems edited by Sean ó Tuama (Dolmen, 1981).

External links

• Biography
• Two poems