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Agallamh beirte (Irish for "conversation of two people") is a form of Irish-language spoken poetry, [1] wherein two people recite a dialogue in verse, often rhyming. Tones are typically humorous and satirical. [2] It is often part of Irish-language culture events and competitions, such as Oireachtas na Gaeilge. [3] [4]
The Faber Book of Irish Verse was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. [1] Recognised as an important collection, [2] it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the past 30 years that has a claim to be a work of art in itself ... still the freshest introduction to the full range of Irish poetry'. [3]
Seán wrote both in Irish and English, but Irish was his primary language and he wrote poems in it of many kinds – Fenian poems, love poems, drinking songs, satires and religious poems. [ 4 ] In 1728 Tadhg wrote a poem in which there is a description of the members of the Ó Neachtain literary circle: twenty-six people are mentioned, mostly ...
The 78 pages of English and Old Irish text, written by a single hand, contain a mix of traditional Irish folklore, legendary history and poetry, as well as a cobbler's trade notes, anecdotes and ...
The name of the poet is unknown, [12] but the poem dates from the early 14th century. [7] Opinions differ as to the dialect of the poem, and hence the place where it might be presumed to have been written. It has been identified as an Irish English poem, [2] [13] or again as the work of a poet in England writing in southern English dialect. [14 ...
"Tuireamh na hÉireann" ([ˈt̪ˠɪɾʲəw n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ], "Lament for Ireland", archaic spelling Tuireaḋ na h-Eireann), also called "Aiste Sheáin Uí Chonaill" ("Seán Ó Conaill's Essay") is an Irish-language poem of the mid-17th century. [1] The poem gives a history of Ireland from the Great Flood to the Cromwellian war. [2]
The Leabhar Branach (Irish pronunciation: [ˌl̠ʲəuɾˠ ˈbˠɾˠanˠəx]), also called the [Poem] Book of the O'Byrnes is an Early Modern Irish anthology of poetry collected in the early 17th century. It consists of poetry in praise of the O'Byrne family, who ruled a region known as Gabhal Raghnaill in modern County Wicklow.
The Soul that Kissed the Body (1990) was a selection of his Irish poems translated into English. His most recent English collection was Barnsley Main Seam (1995); the long title poem celebrates the splendours of York Minster and is a homage to the manual workers of the world. His Collected Poems were