Thanks to Mudcat's Amazon.com link, which I used, my order was just delivered for "James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings," edited by Sean Ryder for University College Dublin (UCD) Press and Preas Cholaiste Ollscoile Bhaile Atha Cliath. This fully annotated anthology was published in 2004. With all this activity by scholars, editors, and publishers in the past twenty years, it won't be their fault if Mangan is not better known; people have been knocking themselves out to make his writing more available to the public.

This edition by Sean Ryder is a doorstop of a book: a single volume, 514 pages. An entire course/seminar could be built around such an anthology, containing, as this does, many poems, a respectable selection of Mangan's prose (including the piece in which Mangan introduces himself as The Man In The Cloak), and even printed music with the melodies for the traditional tunes in "The Poets and Poetry of Munster." This is the first time I have seen anything with this breadth of range in print about Mangan.

I would love to hear opinions about the Ryder edition from someone whose knowledge of Mangan goes deeper than mine, as I am still getting acquainted with this formidable poet. "Q," have you looked at this anthology?