Anam Cara

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Blessings and extracts from To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue, published by Bantam Press, in 2007. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. “Connemara in Our Mind,” “Gleninagh,” “November Questions” and “Cottage” by John O’Donohue are all taken from Echoes of Memory, published by Transworld Ireland. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. “The Angel of the Bog” and “Thought-Work” by John O’Donohue are both taken from Conamara Blues, published by Bantam Press, in 2001. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. John’s talk at the 1999 Céifin Conference originally appeared in Working Towards Balance: Our Society in the New Millennium (Céifin Conference Papers, 1999), published by Veritas in 2000. With thanks to the Céifin Conference. John’s interview with Suzanne Power, published in the Sunday Tribune in 2005, appears by kind permission of the author.

Lines from “Advent” and “Father Mat” by Patrick Kavanagh are reprinted from Collected Poems, edited by Antoinette Quinn (Allen Lane, 2004), by kind permission of the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency. “I Go Among Trees and Sit Still” by Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979–1997. Copyright © 1998 by Wendell Berry. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint. “The Art of Disappearing” from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, copyright © 1995. Used with the permission of Far Corner Books, Portland, Oregon. Lines from Crossing Unmarked Snow by William Stafford, published by University of Michigan Press in 1998. Line from “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott, from Sea Grapes: Collected Poems 1948–1984, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1984. “Section: XIV” by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from Eagle or Sun?, copyright © 1969, 1970, 1975, 1976 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

An extract from “The Journey—for John O’Donohue” by John Quinn originally appeared in his Moments (Veritas, 2011), and appears here in its entirety; “Envoi” by John Quinn appears here in print for the first time.

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