Angela Bourke is the author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker (2004), The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story (1999), and the Famine Folio, Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art (2016). She is joint editor of The Field Day Anthology vols iv & v: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions (2002), an emeritus professor at UCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Angela Bourke
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)