O Love, As Long as Love You Can

‘How love is all when all is said and done’ is at the heart of this distillation of a lifetime’s experience into a personal ‘patchwork of wisdom’ shared across the generations with a grandson. The love relates to the whole of life, and the poet ranges through marriage and friendship, literature, music and art, justice and power, vocation and career, the dynamics of grandfather-grandson and father-son relationships, grief and death, and ‘celebration’s sweet excess’.

O’Siadhail has dealt with...