Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.Translated by Frank O'ConnorIllustrations 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.