Never Crossed This Woman

I was really fascinated by this idea of a lament. Reading this made me think I didn't really understand the form. There's a lot of passion running underneath that. To read this book is to become aware of the lines that run between us, but also how little we know about each other and our very close neighbours. We know so much about the French and so little about Irish culture,. And it's a wonderful translation we get at the end of the book. Here she's putting a curse on the man who murdered her beloved. She says, Morris, you runt on you, I wish anguish, may bad blood spurt from your heart and your liver"