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The Dead at Clonmacnoise is a 14th-century poem by Aongus Ó Giolláin. It commemorates the many royal kings and princes of Ireland that were buried there. It commemorates the many royal kings and princes of Ireland that were buried there.
The caoineadh has been described as the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century. [1] Eibhlín composed it on the subject of the death of her husband Art on 4 May 1773. It concerns the murder at Carraig an Ime, County Cork, of Art, at the hands of the Irish MP Abraham Morris, and the aftermath
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. [1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death.
"The Lament for Owen Roe" is a traditional Irish ballad dating from the nineteenth century. With a mournful tune, based on an eighteenth-century composition called Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill by the harpist Turlough O'Carolan , it is a lament for the death of Owen Roe O'Neill .
Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (also known as Eileen O'Connell, c. 1743 – c. 1800) was a member of the Irish gentry and a poet. She was the main composer of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, a traditional lament in Irish described (in its written form) as the greatest poem composed in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.
When he finished reciting the poem his competitor is reported to have said "Bad luck to you Raftery, you have left nothing at all for the people of Galway" and refused to recite his own poem. [ 5 ] None of his poems were written down during the poet's lifetime, but they were collected from those he taught them to by An Craoibhín Aoibhinn ...
The annals of Clonmacnois describe him as "Chief in Ireland for poetry". He was styled the 'Irish Ovid' due to the quality of his verse. [2] In recording his death, in 1244, the Annals of the Four Masters describes him as "a poet who never was and never will be surpassed".
"Donegal Danny" - about an Irish sailor who tells the tale of a fishing boat disaster in which he was the sole survivor. "Down by the Sally Gardens" – based on a poem by W. B. Yeats, which in turn was based on a song he heard in his childhood. "The Gypsy Maiden" – words and music by Dick Farrelly. Recorded by Sinead Stone & Gerard Farrelly ...