Although Frank OConnor is known primarily, and rightly, as one of the most accomplished short-story writers in English, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems written in Irish into poems written in English - a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift - he stands out above all the rest. Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, OConnor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of the centuries-old tradition of poetry in Irish. Collected here for the first time, OConnors translations show an uncanny aptitude for carrying over into English verse many of the riches to be found in the originals.