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Review, Newspaper Clipping: "The Pilot," About "Delightful New Book of Verse For Lovers of Ireland," [September, 12, 1942].
Author
The Pilot.
Date Added
11 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1942-09-12
Publisher
Boston, etc., Pilot Pub. Co., etc., 1858- .
Source
McGarrity Papers
Topic
McGarrity, Joseph, 1874-1940. Celtic Moods & Memories. McGarrity, Joseph, 1874-1940 > Poetry. Newspapers Sections, columns, etc. Reviews. Newspaper clipping.
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Delightful New Ya ©
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Book of Vers
Lovers of Ireland
The life story of Joseph McGar-
rity, author of the new volume of
verse, “Celtic Moods and Memor-
ies” is interestingly outlined by
Padraic Column in his foreword to
this attractive publications Thoug wi
i McGarrity left Iréland at‘the age
of sixteen he never lost his intense
attachment to the fortunes of his
motherland. Starting penniless in T
this country he made his way wi
characteristic energy and during
the troubled years from 1914 to
1922 in Ireland he was among the
Irish Americans who worked to
sustain the cause of Irish Indepen-
dence. This volume of poetry is
largely a record of the distilled
emotion of those difficult _years.—
“And yet there is a lasting qual-
ity to poetry that crystallizes any,
event however charged with his-
torical meaning. And to the lover
of poetry there will- be much in
these lines that transcend even the
heroism of a battle for freedom,
.; there will be the’ evocation of the
quiet, beautiful, simplest and most
enduring things of life[ Says” Pad-|
, | aic faic Column midst’ effectively . of
this quality in Mr. McGarrity’s
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oems:
~The living Ireland that works
in little fields, that goes to mar-
kets and fairs, that talks by the
fireside in the evening and offers
©! up the rosary at night, and goes to
Mass in the parish .chapel—it is
~ | this living Ireland that these pieces
are about. And the virtue that the
poet feels in-his people are their
living relation to each other.
With ‘insight and with deft-ec-
onomy of expression, for instance,
the poet touches off the essence of
a people’s devotion to their moth-
ers, in lines “To an Irish Mother’:
“There’s lightning in her eyes of
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And in her greying hair:
Her spirit’s- brave, her heart is
true,
Aye, she would dare
All dangers for her country’s sake
And all her foes defy:
No sacred bond will ever break
While she is nigh.
Lovers of poetry who share in
Irish tradition will enjoy this vol-
ume, published in fine format by,
Devin-Adair Company, N. Y., 1942.,
Pp. 107. Price $1.50. ”
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