Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird
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- p.51
- 1 Mo chean duitsi, a thulach thall,
2 fád thuisleadh ní subhach sionn;
3 damhna sgíthi do sgeach dhonn,
4 cleath chorr do-cíthe ós do chionn. - 5 Sgeach na conghára, crádh cáigh,
6 'na háit comhdhála do-chínn;
7 buain na craoibhe, mo lá leóin,
8 daoire 'na dheóidh mar tá an tír. - 9 Dubhach mo chridhisi um chum
10 fád bhilisi, a thulach thall;
11 an chleath ó bhfaicinn gach fonn,
12 do sgeach chorr ní fhaicim ann. - 13 Do bhíoth dhamh ag dénaimh eóil,
14 an ghégsoin fá gar do mhaoin;
15 fada siar ón tírsi thuaidh
16 aniar uaim do-chinnsi an gcraoibh. - 17 An ghaoth ar bhfoghal a fréamh,
18 craobh gan bhloghadh doba buan;
19 ní tearc neach dá ndearna díon,
20 sníomh na sgeach fá teadhma truagh. - 21 Gég chruthach bá corcra lí,
22 mé dubhach má dol fá dhlaoi;
23 mairg nár smuain ar dhaoirsi nDé,
24 's go bfuair mé fád chraoibhsi caoi. p.52 - 25 Do teasgadh ar n-aoinchreach uainn,
26 an chaoimhsgeach dob easdadh d'eón;
27 sgé a samhla níor fhás a húr,
28 dhúnn go bás badh damhna deór. - 29 Mo chréidhim go bruach mo bháis,
30 mo-nuar nach éirghionn ar-ís;
31 ní fhaicim cnoc na gcleath gcnuais
32 nach gluais lot na sgeach mo sgís. - 33 Cnoc na gconghár, crádh na sgol,
34 a n-orláimh námhad a-niodh;
35 d'éis a learg as dubhach dhamh,
36 tulach ghlan do chealg mo chion.
Mo chean duitsi, a thulach thall
Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird cct.
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Title statement
Title (uniform): Mo chean duitsi, a thulach thall
Author: Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird
Responsibility statement
Electronic edition compiled by: Benjamin Hazard
Funded by: University College Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project
Edition statement
2. Second draft.
Extent: 809 words
Publication statement
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: G402209
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Source description
Manuscript source
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A. IV. 3, p. 779.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Mo chean duitsi, a thulach thall’ (1970). In: Irish Bardic Poetry. Ed. by Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, pp. 51–52.
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publisher = {Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies},
date = {1970},
pages = {51–52}
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Creation: Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird, an Irish bardic poet (fl 1600) c.1575–1625[?]
Language usage
- The text is in Classical Modern Irish. (ga)
Keywords: bardic; poetry; 16c; 17c
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(Most recent first)
- 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)
- 2005-08-04T16:11:48+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
- 2003-05-13: Minor changes to header; line-breaks inserted; HTML file created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2003-05-12: Header constructed, structural mark-up entered and checked. Lineation checked and verified; text parsed using NSGMLS. (ed. Benjamin Hazard)
- 1995: Text captured by scanning and proofed. (ed. Staff at the School of Celtic Studies (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies))