EXILES 1. Girl from the East, Palmerstown traffic-lights She swings between steaming morning cars, one trouser leg doubled back above the knee, her main business, The Big Issue, clamped beneath her elbow. A squall of snow bears down just when…

Poet and fiction-writer Mary O’Donnell’s work is often cited as key in expanding the horizons of Ireland’s traditionally male-dominated literary world. She has published eight collections of poetry, including Unlegendary Heroes (1998), Those April Fevers (2015), and most recently Massacre…

Mary O’Donnell was born in Monaghan, educated at St. Louis Convent Monaghan and later at St. Patrick’s College Maynooth. She holds a BA in German and Philosophy (Maynooth, 1977), has studied German to MA level and received a first class…

ЧЕРЕЗ ПЛОЩАДЬ ЧРЕЗМЕРНОСТИ И вода проложила себе путь В мою жизнь въехали белые рыцари, и кружили там, кружили. Жеребцы их дрожали, на бархатных мордах кипела пена. Эти черные кони кричали, их ноздри белели, выражая страх и ярость всадников. Они кружили…