Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa
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- 1 Ionmholta malairt bhisigh:
2 tárraidh sinde 'san amsa
3 iomlaoid go suarrach sona,
4 do-chuaidh a sochar dhamhsa. - 5 Do thréig sind sreatha caola
6 foirceadal bhfaobhrach ffrithir
7 ar shórt gnáthach grés robhog,
8 is mó as a moltar sinde. p.128 - 9 Le dorchacht na ngrés snoighthe
10 do bhínnse ag tuilliodh gráine:
11 fa hí ughachta mhóráin
12 nár dhíol róghráidh ar ndáinne. - 13 Maithim, giodh mór an sonas,
14 énbhonn feasda dá thoradh,
15 má théid énrand gan tuigse
16 dom dhánsa ó dhuine ar domhan. - 17 Dán bog ar bhél na slighiodh,
18 ós é anois siorthior oraind,
19 cuirfeadsa dhíom na fiacha
20 go ccead d'iarla Chlann gConaill. - 21 Mo gheallsa ar bhuga ar mhaoile
22 ní bhérdaois daoithe an bheatha:
23 do-chuaidh mé, maith an tuicsi,
24 le cách fá uisge an cheatha. - 25 Do threig mé —gá mó sonas?—
26 mo shlighthe docra diamhra:
27 dá ccluine cuid dar ndáinne,
28 beanfaidh gáire as an iarla. - 29 D'eagla mo chora as gárda
30 ón mhéid dá ttárras loise,
31 diúltaimse flaith ó gConaill
32 do dhol oraind a ccoisde. - 33 Is iomdha tré dhán bhfallsa
34 lán dom annsacht a mbliadhna:
35 do thuillfinn tuilleadh ceana
36 muna bheith eagla an iarla. - 37 Mac Aodha, aigneadh fosaidh,
38 fear ler robhog ar ccruaidhne,
39 ní cás dúinn dénamh tapaidh,
40 ó tharla a Saxaibh uainne. p.129 - 41 Beag nach brisiodh mo chroidhe
42 gach dán roimhe dá gcumainn:
43 is mór an t-adhbhor sláinte
44 an nós so táinig chugainn. - 45 Dá lochtaighe triath Bearnais
46 énrand dá ndealbhthor linde
47 budh iomdha ag cor 'na aghaidh—
48 ionmholta malairt bhisigh.
Ó Heóghusa .i. Eochaidh cct.
Ionmholta.
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Title (uniform): Ionmholta malairt bhisigh
Author: Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa
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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: 877 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: G402229
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Source description
Manuscript source
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 6131–6133, folio 10a.
Secondary literature
- James Carney, The Irish bardic poet: a study in the relationship of poet and patron as exemplified in the persons of the poet, Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa (O'Hussey) and his various patrons, mainly members of the Maguire family of Fermanagh (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies) 1985.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Ionmholta malairt bhisigh’ (1970). In: Irish Bardic Poetry. Ed. by Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, pp. 127–129.
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Creation: By Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa, an Irish bardic poet c.1585–1620[?]
Language usage
- The text is in Classical Modern Irish. (ga)
Keywords: bardic; poetry; 16c; 17c
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- 2010-11-21: New wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-10-10: File updated, header modified; dates and keywords added. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
- 2005-08-04T16:12:05+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
- 2003-05-13: Minor changes to header; line-breaks inserted; HTML file created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2003-05-09: 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))