The O’Brien Press

Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.

Translated by Frank O'Connor

Illustrations by Brian Bourke.

Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (circa 1749 – 27 July 1805) was an Irish language poet and teacher. His single surviving work of substance, the 1000-line long Cúirt An Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) is widely regarded as the greatest comic poem in the history of Irish literature.