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Sigerson Clifford (1913 – 1 January 1985) was an Irish poet, playwright and civil servant. Clifford was born at 11 Dean St, Cork City , and was christened Edward Bernard Clifford . His parents, Michael Clifford and Mary Anne Sigerson, were from County Kerry , and they returned there in the following year, to Cahersiveen , in the Iveragh ...
A songsheet for The Lament of the Irish Emigrant printed in New York says "A Ballad – Poetry by the Hon. Mrs. Price Blackwood". Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (née Sheridan, 18 January 1807 – 13 June 1867), later Countess of Gifford, was an Irish songwriter, composer, poet, and author. Admired for her wit and ...
Sinéad de Valera wrote thirty-one books for children, in both English and Irish. [7] [8] Among her works were plays such as Cluichidhe na Gaedhilge (1935) and story collections such as The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories (1951), The Stolen Child and Other Stories (1961), The Four-leafed Shamrock (1964) and The Miser's Gold (1970).
Micheal O'Siadhail Irish: Mícheál Ó Siadhail [ˈmʲiːçaːl̪ˠ oː ˈʃiəlʲ]; born on 12th January 1947 is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature. [1]
[1] [2] It tells the story of Grace Gifford's marriage to Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Jail, hours before his execution in 1916. [3] It was released as a single by Jim McCann and reached number 2 in the Irish charts, staying in the charts for 33 weeks from 1 April 1986. [4] [5] Jim McCann described it as: A good new song about an old subject. [1]
Netflix has released the trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy “Irish Wish,” starring Lindsay Lohan. The movie marks Lohan’s second Netflix original following her 2022 holiday movie ...
In the course of the same Irish Times correspondence, however, another music collector, Proinsias Ó Conluain, said he had recorded a song called "She Went Through the Fair", with words the same as the other three verses of "She Moved Through the Fair", sung by an old man who told him that "the song was a very old one" and that he had learned ...
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.