Robert Greacen - Three Anthologies of Irish Poetry

On The Barricades [1944], Robert Greacen, Bruce Williamson, Valentine Iremonger (New Frontier Press [135 Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin 1944), 37pp. Fly-leaf, […] ‘Here they raise, and defend, their first barricades against the low standards, facile half-truths and lack of integrity that have for too long rotted the Anglo-Irish spirit’; epigraphs from Robert Graves and John Dos Passos; Greacen’s contributions, pp.7-16, ‘Dialogue in the Storm’ [Leader of the Crowd v. The Artist]; ‘The Glorious Twelfth, 12 July, 1943’ [‘… while now the Russian plains are stacked with corpses’]; Speech Before Winter’; ‘Written on the Sense of Isolation in Contemporary Ireland’ [invoking Swift, Burke, Goldsmith, Congreve, Moore, and ending ‘So now in days of fevered fret and stress/Let Europe measure our our Irishness’]. Williamson’s contributions, pp.19-27; Iremonger’s contributions, pp.31-37 [Longer poem in ten canto-parts (I-X) of 3-5 quatrains, the first entitled ‘Well, I do Declare’, the ninth (’Evening - Storm Coming Up’, and the tenth ‘The Choice’.]

Irish Harvest (Dublin: New Frontiers Press 1946), 158pp. CONTENTS [chiefly extracts]: Hubert Butler, “Report from Dublin -- The Teaching Brigade”; -- Blanaid Salkeld, “Error”; Mary Lavin, “The Story of the Widow’s Son”; Geoffrey Taylor, “Country Walk”; Lennox Robinson, “Class Conscious”; William Walsh, “A Gentleman of Old Dublin”; John Hewitt, “First Corncrake”; Donagh MacDonagh, “Duet for Organ and Strings”; George Hetherington, “Feathers”; Patrick Greer, “The Room”; Robert Greacen, “The Undiscovered Island”; R. M. Fox, “The New Ireland”; Elizabeth Bowen, “A Love Story”; Seán Jennett, “I Sought in Anger”; Michael McLaverty, “The Mother”; Bruce Williamson, “Homage of War”; Patricia Hutchins, “Art Here”; Valentin Iremonger, “Poem”; Seán O'Faolain, “The Man Who Invented Sin”; Roy McFadden, “The Orator”; Michael O'Beirne, “No Recording Angel”; Helen Waddell, “Seisin”; Sam Harrison, “Rain”; L.A.G. Strong, “Mr Mangan's First Love”; Forrest Reid, “A Garden by the Sea”.

Contemporary Irish poetry, ed. by Robert Greacen & Valentin Iremonger (London: Faber & Faber 1949), 173pp. CONTENTS: Poems by John Boyd, G.M. Brady, Austin Clarke, Rhoda Coghill, Maurice Craig, Leslie Daiken, Denis Devlin, Padriac Fallon, Maurice Farley, Robert Farren, John Gallen, Robert Graves, Robert Greacen, Sam Harrison, George Hetherington, John Hewitt, Pearse Hutchinson, Valentin Iremonger, Sean Jennett, Freda Laughton, C. Day Lewis, Donagh MacDonagh, Patrick MacDonogh, Louis MacNeice, Roy McFadden, Patrick Maybin, Colin Middleton, Ewart Milne, Nick Nicholls, D.J. O'Sullivan, W.R. Rodgers, Blanaid Salkeld, Geoffrey Taylor, Bruce Williamson.

Contribs. as per list on the dust-jacket: Michael MacLaverty, LAG Strong, Seán O’Faoláin, Elizabeth Bowen [‘A Love Story’], Lennox Robinson, Helen Waddell, Forrest Reid, Seán Jennet, Donagh McDonagh, Mary Lavin, Hubert Butler [‘The Teacher Brigade’, a memoir]; Blanaid Salkeld [‘Error’, poem - ‘I fell in with a poet tribe’]; Geoffrey Taylor, John Hewitt, George Hetherington [a three-part poem], Bruce Williamson, Val Iremonger [‘Poem’ - actually his ‘Icarus’, on p.123].