John Mahoney is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor Emeritus in English Literature. Below are three selections from his new two-disc collection, Poetry of Ireland, part of the J. Robert Barth, SJ, Poetry Reading Series. Poetry of Ireland is available at a discount from the Boston College Bookstore.

William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"

Seamus Heaney's "Digging"

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's "Annunciations"