Selected Essays

Eugene O’Brien. ‘Our world is interwoven’: Micheal O’Siadhail and The Five Quintets.’ Études Irlandaises – The French Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetics. vol. 49, no. 1 (2024): 115-129, https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.18138.

Eugene O’Brien. ‘“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric […]”: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Gossamer Wall.’ In ‘Getting the Words Right’: A Festschrift for Eamon Maher. Edited by Grace Neville, Sarah Nolan and Eugene O’Brien. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2024.

Teresa Black. ‘Reflections on One Crimson Thread by Micheal O’Siadhail.’Journal of Geriatric Care and Research. vol. 3, no. 1 (2016): 20.

Mary O’Donnell. ‘Micheal O’Siadhail and the Ghost in the Living Room.’ Studies. vol. 101, no. 203 (Autumn 2012): 335-341, www.studiesirishreview.ie.

Joseph Heininger. ‘Micheal O’Siadhail’s Inscriptions of Holocaust Survivors’ Writings in The Gossamer Wall: A summons to try to look, to try to see.’ In Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz. Edited by Helen Maxson and Dan Morris. Rowman and Littlefield (UK), Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2012.

James William Fletcher Theodosius. ‘The Sophistry of Anxiety; A Study of Innocence and Repetition in Søren Kierkegaard and Micheal O’Siadhail.’ Dphil Dissertation, University of Sussex, 2008.

Jennifer Adams, ‘Can How We Remember Shape What We Become? Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Gossamer Wall: Poems in Witness to the Holocaust in Dialogue with Emil L. Fachenheim.’ M.Phil. Dissertation, St. Catherine’s College, University of Cambridge, 2003.

Nobuaki Tochigi. ‘Micheal O’Siadhail: A Brief Introduction,’ Gendaishitechoo. 42, 10 (1999): 176-181 [in Japanese].

Shigeo Shimizu. ‘Micheal O’Siadhail: Urban Poet,’ Yeats Studies (The Bulletin of the Yeats Society of Japan), 29 (1998): 94-102 [in Japanese].

Audrey O’Toole Pfeil. ‘Das Leben ist im Fluß – Der Dichter Micheal O’Siadhail.’ Irland Journal. no.3 (1997) [in German].

Lorraine Nolan. ‘The Poetry of Micheal O’Siadhail’ M.A.Thesis, University College Dublin, 1994

Gale C. Swiontkowski Schriker. ‘Rondo to Jazz: The Poetry of Micheal O’Siadhail’ Éire/Ireland, (Fall 1994).

Gale C. Schriker. ‘From Yeats’s “Great Wheel” to O’Siadhail’s “The Image Wheel.”’ In Learning The Trade: Essays on W.B. Yeats & Contemporary Poetry. Edited by Deborah Fleming. Locusthill Press, 1993.