TY - JOUR AU - Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith PY - 2017/02/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Yeatsian Shades In Ó Direáin and Macgill-Eain JF - Scottish Studies JA - SS VL - 37 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.2218/ss.v37i0.1800 UR - http://journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStudies/article/view/1800 AB - Michael Hartnett’s grandiloquent valediction ‘A Farewell to English’, first delivered from the stage of the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 1974, announced the thirty-three year-old poet’s decision to cease publishing in his native English, the language in which he had already earned a considerable reputation, in order to devote himself henceforth to poetry in Irish. ER -