The Edge of the City Irish Language ' - from the Foreword

' - from the Foreword by Aidan Clarke

This tension in translation is the major focus of The Midnight Court: Eleven Versions of Merriman

Andrew McNeillie

and at Magdalene College

or the heavily edited text produced by an Anglo-Irish friend and littérateur

The Edge of the City Irish Language ' - from the ForewordDesmond Hogan is one of Irelands leading writers. In addition to his novels and stories, he has traveled widely (for various newspapers) to some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world. In the past fifteen years, he has visited Soviet Russia, Central America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Each of the pieces in this volume is both a personal and a geographical journey, and taken together they amount to a vivid picture of a