National Banks. What Shall be Substituted for Them? An Address on Currency Reform, by Thomas Kinsella, Delivered on Invitation, before a Meeting of Citizens, held in Jefferson Hall, Brooklyn, April 10, 1882 von Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. He attended University College Dublin, entering the Civil Service before becoming a full-time writer and teacher in the United States. He was the author of over thirty collections of poetry, and translated extensively from the Irish, notably the great epic The Táin. He was a director of the Dolmen Press and Cuala Press, Dublin, and in 1972 founded Peppercanister Press for the publication of sequences and long and occasional poems. The editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse and of Austin Clarke's Selected Poems and Collected Poems, Thomas Kinsella was also the author of The Dual Tradition (Carcanet), a critical essay on poetry and politics in Ireland. His awards and honours included Guggenheim Fellowships, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award, the Irish Arts Council Triennial Book Award and honorary doctorates from the University of Turin and the National University of Ireland. In 2007 Thomas Kinsella was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin. He died in December 2021.