Description
Bi-lingual writer Mike Mac Domhnaill has five books to his name in both Gaelic and English. In this collection, which consists mainly of poems in English, he has a six poem sequence reflecting on the Covid pandemic and an eleven poem sequence which captures a stay in the wondrous Burren of North Clare.
Perhaps Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, publisher of Coiscéim, summed him up best when he called him “file engagé” he deals with issues from Palestine to Europe’s colonial – and often shameful – past. Poems like Blue Whale reference the nature programme “Mooney Goes Wild” and the grave consequences of humankind’s attitude to the natural world.
Mac Domhnaill won RTÉ’s Francis McManus Short Story Award in 2013 and his poetry is included in the County Limerick Anthology An Cloigean is a Luach/What Worth the Head and I Live in Michael Hartnett. A poem on the Irish Civil War, first published in Forgiving Moon (Revival Press 2020), was included in Poetry as Commemoration (UCD) 2023.
His short story collection, Sifting, Uncle Ned & Other Stories, was highly praised by writers such as Donal Ryan, Joseph O’Connor and Kelly Creighton.
He lives in Newcastle West, County Limerick.
