To Peter Fallon and the Gallery Press for permission to quote lines from Michael Hartnett’s “A Farewell to English” and from Derek Mahon’s The Yellow Book; to Faber and Faber Ltd. for permission to quote from Louis MacNeice’s “Neutrality” from The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice; to Brendan Kennelly for permission to quote from his poem “Westland Row” and from Cromwell; to John Montague for permission to quote from The Sheltered Edge; to the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency for permission to quote from Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger; to Michael B. Yeats, Macmillan London Ltd. and Macmillan Publishing Company, for permission to reprint from Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats, lines from “The Statues”, copyright© 1940 by Georgie Yeats, renewed 1968 by Bertha Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats, and Anne Yeats, and from “Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931” copyright © 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats; to Greg Delanty for permission to quote from The Hellbox; and to Eavan Boland for permission to quote from her poem “Anna Liffey” in her Collected Poems.
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