John Montague: A Poet's LifeIn the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romantic periods. A Poets Life is the definitive biography of one of the first and foremost poets in this golden generation, John Montague. Inspired by the examples of Yeats and Joyce, he consciously educated himself to play a central role in the self understanding of his people. Ahead of the public recognition of

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the 132 International Eucharistic Congress and the Nuremburg Rally of 1933

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