![]() ![]() He, like Yeats, constantly remade poems, sometimes radically. ![]() Mac Poilin, the late teacher, editor and Irish-language translator, said that Fiacc was a poet who worked in fragments, and he could wait for a decade or more before fragments would gel into a poem. He described Fiacc's poetry as "Beckettian in its bleak physicality and intensity, tragic-comic, anti-heroic, counter-lyrical – even anti-poetic – and unlike anything else produced by an Irish poet during the last half-century."ĭeciding against life in the priesthood, he left and – in order to avoid military service in the United States – returned to Belfast "The books he published tell this story in a shocking way, offending many with their often barbarous and fragmented utterance but lit throughout with black irony and gallows humour," said Dawe. Belfast poet and emeritus professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, Gerald Dawe, who co-edited Padraic Fiacc: Ruined Pages with Aodan Mac Poilin (Blackstaff Press, 1994, and Lagan Press, 2012), said that Fiacc's work can be read as a history of what it felt like to be at the cutting edge of the Troubles. ![]()
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