Sea Spray: Verses and Translations

A luminous artifact from the Irish literary revival, Sea Spray gathers original verses alongside translations that span Irish and German sources. Rolleston's own poems move through the Irish landscape with a quiet intensity, rendering coastline, bog, and sky as vessels for longing and mortality. The translations reveal his ambition: bringing ancient voices back into conversation with the present, from the mourning of "The Dead at Clonmacnois" to the martial grandeur of "The Battle of Salamis." The collection pulses with what the Celts called "seanfhocail" that spirit of old words holding fast against time. Rolleston wrote in an era when Ireland was reimagining itself, and these pages carry both personal grief and cultural reclamation in equal measure. For readers drawn to the Celtic Twilight moment when Yeats and his contemporaries were forging a modern Irish literature from ancient materials, this volume offers an intimate window into that creative ferment.