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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. [1] [2] [3] The ...
"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]
Much of the Irish poetry of the 17th century was therefore composed by Catholic clerics and Irish society fell increasingly under Counter-Reformation influences. By mid-century, the subordination of the native Catholic upper classes in Ireland boiled over in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 .
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: An Aisling, 1883. The aisling (Irish for 'dream' / 'vision', pronounced [ˈaʃl̠ʲəɲ], approximately / ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ / ASH-ling), or vision poem, is a mythopoeic poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry.
"I Am Stretched on Your Grave" is a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Irish poem titled "Táim sínte ar do thuama". [1] It was translated into English several times, most notably by Frank O'Connor.
Bardic poetry is the writings produced by a class of poets trained in the bardic schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century or, in Scotland, the early 18th century.
Ó Bruadair was born in Barrymore, County Cork [2] and spent much of his adult life in County Limerick, receiving the patronage of both Irish and Anglo-Irish landowners. This patronage was vital, as Ó Bruadair was the first of the 17th-century poets to attempt to live purely from his poetry, in the manner of the professional bards of the medieval period.
William Butler Yeats later made reference to this work in his poem The Curse of Cromwell. [8] Ó Rathaille's life can be seen as a microcosm of the changes in culture and society which occurred in Ireland during the end of the 17th century. His loss of status and resultant destitution are direct parallels to the death of the bardic tradition ...