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On "Tuireamh na hÉireann," Vincent Morley wrote that it was "arguably one of the most important works ever written in Ireland. Composed in simple metre, easily understandable and capable of being learned by heart, this poem supplied an understanding of Irish history for the Catholic majority (monoglot speakers of Irish who could neither read nor write for the next two hundred years)."
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 newly created Irish Poetry Reading Archive (IPRA) is building into a comprehensive web-based library of Irish poets. Hosted by UCD’s Digital Library, a part of the university's James Joyce Library, it has an archive of contemporary Irish poets. These include established and emerging poets in both the English and Irish languages ...
A Collection of Early Middle Irish Poems. Oxford, 1883. Available in html markup from CELT and PDF available from Celtic Digital Initiative; Greene, David and Kelly, Fergus (eds., tr.). The Irish Adam and Eve Story from Saltair na Rann, Vol. 1 Text and Translation; Vol. II Commentary by Brian Murdoch, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976.
Eleanor Knott, The bardic poems of Tadhg Dall Ó Huiginn (1550–1591),An introduction to Irish syllabic poetry of the period 1200–1600 with selections, notes and glossary (Cork, 1928),Irish classical poetry commonly called bardic poetry (Dublin, 1957). Knott, Eleanor. "Catalogue of Eleanor Knotts works" (PDF). Royal Irish Academy.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol; The Battles of Talavera; Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide; Belfast Confetti (poem) Blood and the Moon; An Bonnán Buí; Boolavogue (song) The Boys of Barr na Sráide; Buile Shuibhne
The full poem is nine hundred and sixteen lines in length. It identifies various tribes, dynasties and territories of the Gaelic - Irish , as they were immediately before the arrival of the Anglo-Normans . Ó Dubhagáin devotes one hundred and fifty-two lines to Meath , three hundred and fifty-four to Ulster , three hundred and twenty-eight to ...
It concerns the murder at Carraig an Ime, County Cork, of Art, at the hands of the Irish MP Abraham Morris, and the aftermath. It is one of the key texts in the corpus of Irish oral literature. The poem was composed extempore and follows the rhythmic and societal conventions associated with keening and the traditional Irish wake respectively.