Editing Michael Hartnett (section)

==Later life and works==
In 1984 he returned to Dublin to live in the suburb of [[Inchicore]]. The following year marked his return to English with the publication of ''Inchicore Haiku'', a book that deals with the turbulent events in his personal life over the previous few years. This was followed by a number of books in English including ''A Necklace of Wrens'' (1987), ''Poems to Younger Women'' (1989) and ''The Killing of Dreams'' (1992). These critically acclaimed works contributed to his winning the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1988, and the American-Ireland Fund Literary Award in 1990. Selected and New Poems (1994) was published both in Ireland and the USA.

He also continued working in Irish, and produced a sequence of important volumes of translation of classic works into English. These included ''Ó Bruadair, Selected Poems of [[Dáibhí Ó Bruadair]]'' (1985) and ''Ó Rathaille The Poems of [[Aogán Ó Rathaille|Aodhaghán Ó Rathaille]]'' (1999). His ''Collected Poems'' appeared in two volumes in 1984 and 1987 and ''New and Selected Poems'' in 1995. In 1999, the documentary film on his life and work: Michael Hartnett: Necklace of Wrens, was widely shown on Irish television to critical acclaim and won several prizes. Also, during the late 1990s, his poetry was added to the Irish final secondary school exam, the Leaving Certificate

Seamus Heaney has written that he is "one of the truest, most tested and beloved voices in Irish poetry in our time."  

Hartnett died from [[Alcoholic Liver Disease]] in October 1999 following a stroke in [[Listowel]] and after repeated visits to the hospital over the years.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Death of poet Michael Hartnett |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/death-of-poet-michael-hartnett-1.238397 |access-date=2023-10-09 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}} </ref> He is buried in [[Newcastle West]].

The Collected Poems, A Book of Strays and Translations were published in 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively by Gallery Press.