Hopkins in Ireland : Pictures and Words

This beautiful book is inspired by the poems and literary observations of the Jesuit poet and teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, particularly during 1884-1889, the final years of his life in Ireland. A companion to Hopkins's important written legacy, it also illuminates the ways in which his poetic vision was nurtured by the eye of a trained visual artist.

Michael Flecky, drawing on the visual images of Hopkins's poems, letters, and spiritual journals, visited locations that could be identified from Hopkins's writing and photographed them to faithfully represent the poet's literary and visual perspective.

Hopkins in Ireland: Pictures and Words offers clues to the sometimes obscure historical context of Hopkins's life in Ireland and to what he imagined and expressed in words during the last chapter of his life.

The "Hopkins in Ireland" exhibition has been shown in Ireland and at Creighton University, St.

Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Xavier University in Cincinnati, and Canisius University in Buffalo.