Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird
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- 1 A fhir ghlacas a ghalldacht,
2 bhearras an barr bachalldocht,
3 seang-ghlac atú do thogha,
4 ní tú deagh-mhac Donnchadha. - 5 Ní thréicfea, da madh tú soin,
6 do ghruag ar ghalldacht thacair—
7 maisi as fhearr fá fhíadh bhFódla—
8 'sní bhíadh do cheann corónda. - 9 Ní modh leatsa an barr buidhe;
10 fuath leision na locuidhe,
11 is bheith maol ar ghrés na nGall—
12 bhar mbés ar-aon ní hionann. - 13 Fear nár ghrádhaigh an ghalldacht
14 Eóghan Bán, searc saor-bhanntracht,
15 don ghalldacht ní thug a thoil,
16 an alltacht rug do roghain. - 17 Ní bhean th'aigneadh d'Eóghan Bhán,
18 do-bhéradh brísdi ar bhegán,
19 fear nár iarr do chlóca acht ceirt,
20 lé nár mian cóta is coisbeirt. - 21 Fuath leis ar chaol a choisi
22 mionn sbuir ar bhróig bhuataisi,
23 nó sdocaidhe ar sdair na nGall;
24 locaidhe air ní fhágbhann. p.50 - 25 Ráipér maol nach muirfeadh cuil,
26 ní maisi lé mac Donnchaidh
27 meadh meanaidh thiar ar a thóin,
28 ag triall go tealaigh thionóil. - 29 Beg a brígh a mbrat órdha,
30 ná a mbanna ard sholónda
31 nó a bhfail óir far ghabhtha ghoimh,
32 nó a sgarfa sróill go sálaibh. - 33 Dúil a leaba chlúimh ní chuir,
34 annsa leis luighi ar luachair;
35 teach garbh-shlat ná táille tuir,
36 sáimhe lé dagh-mhac Donnchaidh. - 37 Bró mharc-shluagh ar bhrú mbeirne,
38 troid gharbh, comhlann ceitheirne,
39 cuid do mhianuibh meic Donnchaidh,
40 's gleic d'iarraidh ar allmhurchaibh. - 41 Ní hionann is Eóghan Bán
42 gáirit 'mad chois ar chlochán
43 truagh nach bfacas libh bhar locht,
44 a fhir ghlacas an ghalldacht.
A fhir ghlacas a ghalldacht
Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird cct.
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Title (uniform): A fhir ghlacas a ghalldacht
Author: Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird
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Electronic edition compiled by: Benjamin Hazard
Funded by: University College Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project
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2. Second draft.
Extent: 825 words
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Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork.
Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland.—http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Date: 2003
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G402208
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
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Manuscript source
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS no. 743 (olim A. IV. 3), p. 778.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘A fhir ghlacas a ghalldacht’ (1970). In: Irish Bardic Poetry. Ed. by Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, pp. 49–50.
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date = {1970},
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Creation: Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird, an Irish bardic poet c.1585–1605[?]
Language usage
- The text is in Classical Modern Irish. (ga)
Keywords: bardic poetry; eulogy; description of clothes; war with foreigners; lapse of Gaelic ways; Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; 16c; 17c
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- 2016-07-05: Metre added; keywords added to header. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2010-11-21: New wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-10-10: Header modified; keywords added; dates added. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
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- 2003-05-12: Header constructed, structural mark-up entered and checked. Lineation checked and verified; text parsed using NSGMLS. (ed. Benjamin Hazard)
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