[3] Power's Irish-language novel Ull i mBarr an Ghéagáin (1959) won the Gaelic Book Club Award.
Power's most notable and critically acclaimed novel was The Hungry Grass (1969), which covered in close detail the last days of a village priest, Fr Tom Conroy.
In 2016 "The Hungry Grass" was reprinted and hailed as a "forgotten classic of Irish literature" and "truly masterful" because of the "sympathetic glimpse into the inner life of Father Tom Conroy" a character of depth and complexity.
[5][6] Also: ‘Poems translated from the Irish,' Poetry Ireland, 19 (October 1952), pp.7-8; ‘Peasants: A Story,' The Bell, XVIII, 7 (Dec. 1952), pp.424-30; ‘An Outpost of Rome,’ The Dubliner, Vol.
See also extract from The Mohair Boys [unfinished novel] in The Irish Press (27 February 1971) Water Wisdom (short public service film, directed by Power) (Department of Local Government, 1962)