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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
...care of the writer. As we saw earlier, the poems by O’Leary and Tynan also focused on the image of the courageous mother. It’s interesting that Ní Dhomhnaill’s poem in fact dramatises two maternal figures - Moses’s birth mother and the Egyptian princess - and you might like to think about the reasons for this. In dialogue with the poet Below we've included an...