The works of Irish modernist, Mary Devenport O'Neill
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  • About
  • Biography
  • Poetry
    • Critical Introduction
    • From Prometheus & Other Poems
      • Poems
      • Dream Poems
        • Epigraph
        • Dante
        • Marcel Proust
        • The Full Moon
        • The Cooked Slice of Bread
      • “Prometheus”
        • Preface
        • Persons in the Poem
        • Part I
        • Part II
        • Part III
        • Part IV
        • Part V
  • Plays
    • Cain
    • Out of the Darkness
    • Bluebeard
  • Letters
    • To Austin Clarke
      • 1929
      • 1939
      • 1943
      • 1944
      • 1945
      • 1947
      • 1948
      • No year
  • Reviews
    • Review of Prometheus and Other Poems, by M. S. P.
    • Review of Edith Sitwell’s The Shadow of Cain, by Mary Devenport O’Neill
  • Gallery
  • Timeline
  • Bibliography
    • Plain-text
    • Zotero
  • Criticism
    • ’The shallow loops the Blackbirds make’: Mary Devenport O’Neill’s Voices of Alterity
    • “A Crooked Slice of Bread”: Mary Devenport O’Neill’s Dream Poems

Poems

“A Mood’s Extremity”
“An Old Waterford Woman”
“A Strong Wind”
“Dead Women”
“Early Spring”
“Enravelled”
“Entranced”
“Evening”
“Expectation”
“Falling”
“Galway”
“Impressions while Listening to a Piece of Music by Richard Strauss”
“King Lear’s Daughters”
“October Afternoon in Bad Kreuth in Bavaria”
“October Afternoon in Dublin”
“Praise”
“Something Whinges to Me”
“Stray Thoughts”
“Summer 1924”
“Swallows”
“The Aspen Tree”
“The Bell”
“The Blackbird”
“The Last Few Leaves”
“The Midlands”
“The Queen’s Song”
“The River Field”
“The Shortest Day”
“The Tramp’s Song”
“Undisturbed by Leaves”
“Wishes”
“Yellow Leaves”

  • Irish Research Council
  • College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, University College Cork
  • UCC