Draft talk:Cathal Ó Searcaigh extended bibliography

Cathal Ó Searcaigh's bibliography as a separate article

Some time ago I reviewed the poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh's main Wikipedia article and overhauled the bibliography section, adding a considerable number of review articles, foreign editions etc. The editor Bastun picked me up on it, saying the biographical article was now overbalanced by an excessive amount of bibliography, much of which should be removed. I was disappointed of course, but Bastun assured me that there was nothing wrong with creating a new article devoted to bibliography. He helpfully removed much of the excess material, leaving all the more important stuff such as the poet's own writing, removing any writing about the poetry. After quite a long wait, I eventually got around to reviewing the material that had been removed, bringing it up to date with additions and improvements. I now present it for editor review in the hope that it will pass inspection and be included in Wikipedia.

The reason I think this is important is that Ó Searcaigh's poetry has made an widespread international impression as well as having admirers among the (admittedly quite small) readership of poetry in the Irish language in Ireland, Scotland, and elsewhere. This speaks to the quality of his writing in Irish, despite the fact that, English being his second language, his writing in that more accessible language is much more limited both in amount and in appeal. Even in his bilingual editions, the strong tendency is for the English translations to have been provided by bilingual fellow poets, not by Ó Searcaigh himself. Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 13:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)