A Little Book of Irish Verse Author:Appletree Press Ireland is justly famed for her poets. This selection of well-known poems by her most celebrated writers offers a glimpse of the wide range and diversity of Irish verse throughout the ages. They vary in time from the anonymous "Patrick's Breastplate" in the eighth century to those of W B Yeats in the twentieth, and are illustrated by paintings... more » by Irish artists from the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.« less