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© Artur, 2012

© Artur, 2012

Ó Pharnell Go Queenie

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh

The adulterous affair between the leader of the Irish Party in Westminester, Charles Stuart Parnell, and Katherine O'Shea, a married woman, shocked Ireland in 1890 and put a sudden end to his great career. Ó Pharnell Go Queenie, or Parnell to Queenie, is a collection of love poems written by Irish-language poet Ó Snodaigh, who tries to fathom the relationship between this important political figure and the lover he affectinately addressed as Queenie in his letters.

Coiscéim 1991

Translated into: Italian, Czech

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