‘Keep us alert / for the while remaining’: Kinsella at eighty

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Notes

 1. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin at the Gate Theatre, 17 June 2007, http://youtube.com/user/poetryireland (accessed May 4, 2008).

 2. Kinsella has discussed his poetry in terms of a ‘totality of imaginative response with the merely linguistic characteristics deleted so that one is brought closer and closer to the data and to the form and unity embodied in the data’. O'Driscoll, ‘Interview with Thomas Kinsella’, 65; Kinsella, ‘Prayer I’, Belief and Unbelief, 22.

 3. Dennis O'Driscoll at the Gate Theatre, 17 June 2007, http://youtube.com/user/poetryireland.

 4. Clutterbuck, ‘Introduction’, vii.

 5. Vincent Jackson reported in the minutes of the Freedom of the City Conferral Ceremony, www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Minutes_May_2007_Special_Meeting.pdf.

 6. Thomas Kinsella reported in the minutes of the Freedom of the City Conferral Ceremony, www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Minutes_May_2007_Special_Meeting.pdf.

 7. Kinsella, Belief and Unbelief, 7; Harmon, Thomas Kinsella , 217.

 8. Vincent Jackson reported in the minutes of the Freedom of the City Conferral Ceremony, www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Minutes_May_2007_Special_Meeting.pdf.

 9. Michael Schmidt at the Gate Theatre, 17 June 2007, http://youtube.com/user/poetryireland.

10. Tim Kendall, ‘Ups and Downs: Tim Kendall Reviews Mocker by David Wheatley’, www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/march2007/wheatley.html.

11. Thomas Kinsella at the Gate Theatre, 17 June 2007, http://youtube.com/user/poetryireland.

12. Kinsella, ‘Prayer II’, Belief and Unbelief, 23.