Spanning over a thousand years of poetry and song in the Irish language, this anthology of poems with translations into English, celebrates the power of love.

Diolaim chuimsitheach dhatheangach a rianaionn traidisiun na filiochta gra i nGaeilge on luathaois go dti an nua-aois. Seo chugainn leargas iontach ar phaisean

"In his selection A. Norman Jeffares illustrates this variety, choosing love poems from every period of Irish history. Some of the poets will be well known to r

Presenting the best Irish love poems of the 20th century, starting with Yeatsand ending with Elliott, The Long Embrace includes the work of 54 outstandingIrish

Together these poems mingle the famous, the infamous, and the unknown into a beautiful and striking anthology. Fraught simultaneously with both violence and lov