The Midnight Court & The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow. Translated from the Gaelic by Percy Arland Ussher. With an Introduction by W.B. Yeats. Woodcuts by Frank W. Peers. London: J. Cape, 1926. First Edition. Pp , 79, uncut. Orange cloth boards, title label to spine, in publiaher cream dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

This volume pairs Brian Merriman’s famous Cúirt an Mheán Oíche with a lesser-known poem by Denis MacConmara, both translated by Percy Arland Ussher.

For W.B. Yeats, translations of this kind were part of a larger cultural project: recovering and reinterpreting Ireland’s Gaelic heritage for a modern, English-speaking readership.