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Author: Brian Merriman, translated by Cosslett Ó Cuinn
Title: The Midnight Court
Subtitle: A new translation of Cúirt an Mheán Oíche le Brian Merriman
ISBN: 0853426570
Publisher: Mercier Press, Cork
Publication Date: 1982
Edition: First edition, number 443 of a limited edition of 500, signed by the translator and the illustrator
Condition: Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Unread.
Genre: Poetry in translation, Irish interest
Format: Hardback
Illustrated by John Verling. Signed by both Cosslett Ó Cuinn and John Verling on the limitation page.
Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán Oíche, written in Irish in the 1780s, is among the great comic poems in the language. Cosslett Ó Cuinn’s translation was published by Mercier Press in a limited edition of 500 copies.
