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McCarthy, Thomas

 
9780856463754: Merchant Prince

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In Merchant Prince Thomas McCarthy presents two groups of poems, set largely in Cork, and a novella set in Italy, in the period from 1769 and 1831. They tell the story of Nathaniel Murphy: his training for the priesthood, the loss of his virginity and vocation, his flight from Italy, and later his happy marriage and successful career as a Cork merchant.
The unusual mixture of verse and prose and the meticulously imagined history - replete with portraits of such great figures as the painter James Barry, and four Italian poets who are strangely reminiscent of certain contemporary Irish poets - gives the book a compelling flavour. Poems and prose combine in a poetic fiction which is, among other things, a meditation on the craft of verse and the artistic calling, and a restoration project on a kind of Irishness overwritten by later history.

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Thomas McCarthy was born in Co Waterford in 1954 and educated at Cork University. He has published six poetry collections, two novels, and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation's Literary Award, and the O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He works in the Cork 2005 offices promoting Cork's status as European Capital of Culture.


Thomas McCarthy was born in Co Waterford in 1954 and educated at Cork University. He has published six poetry collections, two novels, and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation's Literary Award, and the O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He works in the Cork 2005 offices promoting Cork's status as European Capital of Culture.

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9780856463822: Merchant Prince

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ISBN 10:  0856463825 ISBN 13:  9780856463822
Casa editrice: Anvil Press Poetry, 2005
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