The Guardian’s Poem of the Week

This poem shows us a multi-faceted Ireland through the prism of the pub, and a half-interior imaginary ramble.

It’s a month since Bloomsday was celebrated, but perhaps this week’s poem, “Legacies” by Peter Sirr, will help sustain us until the next one. Sirr, like many Irish writers after Joyce, is something of an internationalist. A fine translator as well as original poet, he was born in Waterford in 1960, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lived for spells in Italy and Holland. “Legacies” appears in his Selected Poems (Gallery Press, 2004).