The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics

Acknowledgements

xiii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the staff of the following libraries and institutions who have been unfailingly helpful to us: Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the National Library of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, the Gilbert Collection in the Pearse Street Library Dublin. In addition, we thank the following for generously providing help of various kinds: Toby Barnard, Ray Bates, Charles Benson, Bernadette Cunningham, David Dickson, éamonn de Búrca, Patrick Duffy, Frank Ferguson, Anne Fogarty, Raymond Gillespie, Jane Grogan, Margaret Kelleher, James Kelly, Máire Kennedy, Rolf and Magda Loeber, Linde Lunney, James McGuire, Cormac Ó Gráda, John Fischer, Hermann Real, Ian Campbell Ross, the late Tony Sweeney, Brendan Twomey, John Waters, James Woolley, Julia Wright and our colleagues in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. We are grateful also to the staff at Cork University Press – particularly to Maria O’Donovan – and to the anonymous readers for the press whose reports were a great help in our revision of the Introduction. We acknowledge, with thanks, permission to quote from materials in the possession of the Board of Trinity College Dublin, the Trustees of the National Library of Ireland, the Board of the British Library and the Council of the Royal Irish Academy. ...