It is more than thirty years since Lennox Robinson's Golden Treasury of Irish Verse appeared and since then much fine Irish verse has been published. The present anthology represents not only the new poets but poetry in Ireland since the end of the sixteenth century when English began to be the vernacular of the country. The editors have made a balanced selection ranging from Luke Wadding through Swift, Goldsmith, James Clarence Mangan, and Yeats to the youngest poets now being published and they have judiciously pruned the over-prolific nineteenth century. In addition the editors hope that they have represented poetry in Irish by true and scholarly translations. This should be the definitive anthology of Irish verse for many years to come.