The Stone Street Press

The reverence for nature poetry has much to say to us today.
3 Volumes
1.) Marban the hermit
2.) Suibne Geilt, the enthralling ecstatic.
3.) A cycle of blackbird poems, all powerfully imbued with a sense of sacred nature.
3×16vo books in Indigo covers, with blue mango leaf end papers, in elegant slipcase with draw ribbon. Title labels calligraphed in gold; 3 initial caps in colored inks.

Price: $30.00

An anthology of classic love, nature, and monastic Irish poetry. Love, Nature, & Early Monastic Prayer-Poetry. Dual language: English & Irish.
Binding, paper labels, illustrations, calligraphy & translation by Malachi.
3 volumes of “An Duanaire” are available separately.

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From the Duanaire poetry collection.
Medieval love poetry.
Witty, wise, ironic.
Reviews:
“The book is lovely.” ~Cork Examiner.
Description:
Pages: 32. 5 3/4'' x 8 1/2''
[Sewn 24pp 8vo]

Price: $9.00

From the Duanaire poetry collection.
From 8th Century on.
“Evokes the soul of Ireland”
Pages: 32. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2
[Sewn 32pp 8vo]

Price: $11.00

From the Duanaire collection
Old Irish monastic prayer poems, 8th century-12th century. Personal spirituality, pre-Synod of Whitby, pre-”codified,” prayer gems.
Pages: 32. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2
[Sewn 24pp 8vo]

Price: $10.00

The Snoring Poem, a wonderfully funny 17th century poem.
The anonymous poet compares her bed-partner’s snoring to a litany of unpleasant 17th C. noises!
The introduction has a hand-colored initial.
[Sewn 16pp 16vo ]

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By Eileen Dubh O’Connell

A New Translation by Malachi McCormick.Full-length 390-line version.
One of our great Irish language poems, the tragic story of Art & Eileen Dubh, his wife.
After years of feuding with Sheriff Morris, Art was shot dead in 1773 near Macroom, Co. Cork
(I know the town well: first cousins lived there.)

Remarkably, Eileen’s fierce, tender caoine (lament) was completely extemporized, an ancient Irish tradition carried on by gifted ‘keening women’ the mná caointe.

In a long essay I explore the rich history of the O’Connell household at Derrynane, focusing on Eileen Dubh (aunt of Liberator Daniel O’Connell ) and her mother, the extraordinary Maire Dubh, great matriarch, woman of the house, poet and bean caointe.
Reviews:
“You’ll have to go a long way to find a more beautiful book.” Cork Examiner.
Description:
Japanese 4-hole binding. 60pp 8vo

Price: $24.00

This important 7th century poem,
a prayer for protection said at day’s outset, combines Christian and Druid sentiments.
I have tried in my translation to convey the raw strength of the original language.
This is prayer-poetry from Ireland’s great spiritual Golden Age,
and the resonant “Deer’s Cry” is undergoing a significant rediscovery today.
Reviews:
“Gorgeous, inexpensive, exquisite” -An Gael magazine.

“Delightful.” -Cork Examiner.

Two initial capitals calligraphed in red.

Sewn 20pp 8vo, with a brown specialty paper cover.

Price: $10.00