Liam Ó Muirthile's second collection of poems in Irish -- his first since Tine Cnámh (1984) -- begins with a number of exquisite lyrics and concludes with an extended sequence, 'Wolfe Tone'.

Dialann Bóthair is, among other things, a 'road' book, a journey's log in which the poet's real and imaginative progress to the West Cork Gaeltacht is adumbrated by the actual, historical journey made by Tone to see the same region.

Declan Kiberd observes: 'Like all the best collections it sounds many varied notes . . . Ó Muirthile's deft ability to explore the personal ramifications of public events is most powerfully apparent in the sequence of poems which address the diaries of Wolfe Tone . . . This is a necessary book.'