Reading List for Brian Merriman and the Poem

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Cumann Merriman is grateful to Liam P. Ó Murchú for compiling this reading list about Brian Merriman and The Midnight Court.

Commentaries

T. F. O’Rahilly

'Léirmheas ar Ó Foghludha (1912)'

In Gadelica 1 (1912), 190 – 204

D. Corkery

The Hidden Ireland (1924, 1979)

Gill

Frank O’Connor

The Midnight Court: A Rhythmical Bacchanalia by Bryan Merriman

Preface (1945, 1989)

Fridberg

Cosslett Ó Cuinn

'Merriman’s Court'

In The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry (1982), 111 – 26

Seán Mac Réamoinn (ed.)

Alan Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.)

P. A. Breatnach

'Irish Narrative Poetry 1200 AD'

In Studia Hibernica 22 – 23 (1982 – 83), 7 – 20

Gearóid Ó Crualaoich

’The Vision of liberation in Cúirt an Mheán Oíche'

In Folia Gadelica (1983), ? – ??

P. de Brún, S. Ó Coileáin agus P. Ó Riain (edd.)

Cork University Press

Art Ó Beoláin

'Brian Merriman'

In Merriman agus Filí Eile (1985), 7 – 23

By the same author

An Clóchomhar

Seán Ó Tuama

'Cúirt An Mheán Oíche'

In Cúirt, Tuath agus Bruachbhaile: Aistí agus Dréachtaí Liteartha (1990), 7 – 37

An Clóchomhar

Alan Titley

'An Breithiúnas ar Chúirt an Mheán Oíche'

In Studia Hibernica 25 (1989 – 90)

G. C. Buttimer

'Cogadh Sagsana Nuadh Sonn: Reporting the American Revolution'

In Studia Hibernica 28 (1994), 63 – 101

S. Heaney

'Orpheus in Ireland: On Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court'

In The Redress of Poetry. The Oxford Lectures (1995), 38 – 62

By the same author

Faber and Faber

Séamas de Barra

'An Chairt Bheathaisnéise ag Pilib Barún ar Bhrian ‘Merriman’ Mac Con Mara (1836)'

In Studia Hibernica 30 (1998 – 99), 155 – 66

Eoghan Ó hAnluain

'Cuirfidh mé faghairt i bhfeidhm más cruaidh dom'

In Saoi na hÉigse: Aistí in Ómós do Sheán Ó Tuama (2000), 153 – 67

P. Riggs, B. Ó Conchúir, S. Ó Coileáin (edd.)

An Clóchomhar

Liam P. Ó Murchú

'Cúlra agus Múnla Liteartha do Chúirt Mherriman'

In idem (2000), 169 – 95

An Clóchomhar

Brian Ó Dálaigh

'Poet of a Single Poem, Brian Merriman (c. 1749 – 1805)'

In County Clare Studies: Essays in Memory of Gerald O’Connell, Seán Ó Murchadha, Thomas Coffey and Pat Flynn (2000), 101 – 36

C. Ó Murchadha (ed.)

D. Kiberd

'Brian Merriman’s Midnight Court'

In Irish Classics (2000), 182 – 202

Granta Books

Liam P. Ó Murchú

Merriman: I bhFábhar Béithe

(2005)

An Clóchomhar

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