Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin
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- p.145
- 1 Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán?2
a chiall is ceirteólas suadh:3
an ngéabhadh, nó an áil le haon,4
dán saor do-bhéaradh go buan? - 5 Gé dán sin go snadhmadh bhfis,6
gach margadh ó chrois go crois7
do shiobhail mé an Mhumhain leis—8
ní breis é a-nuraidh ná a-nois. - 9 D'éirneist gémadh beag an bonn,10
níor chuir fear ná éinbhean ann,11
níor luaidh aoinfhear créad dá chionn,12
níor fhéagh liom Gaoidheal ná Gall. p.146 - 13 Ceard mar so ní sochar dhún,14
gé dochar a dol fa lár:15
uaisle dul re déiniomh cíor—16
ga bríogh d'éinfhior dul re dán? - 17 Ní mhair Corc Chaisil ná Cian,18
nár chaigil a gcrodh ná a luagh,19
na réidhfhir ag díol na ndámh—20
slán lé síol Éibhir mon-uar. - 21 Geall bronnta níor beanadh dhíobh,22
Cobhthach go teasda agus Tál:23
iomdha drong diongbhaim dá luadh,24
uaim anonn dá ndiongnainn dán. - 25 Mé im luing cheannaigh ar gcaill laist26
d'éis Chlann nGearailt do thuill teist:27
ní chluinim—is cás rom loisg:28
fás an toisg fá gcuirim ceist.
Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán?
Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin cct.
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Title (uniform): Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán?
Author: Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin
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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: 805 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: 2008
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G402236
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Source description
Manuscript sources
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 8, p. 294m, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. I-V (volume 1) 66.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 14, p. 188, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. I-V (volume 1) 371.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 B 7, p. 31, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. VI-X (volume 2) 906.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 M 43, 8m, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. VI-X (volume 4) 16-20.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán?’ (1970). In: Irish Bardic Poetry. Ed. by Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, pp. 145–146.
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Creation: Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin, an Irish bardic poet c.1600–1625
Language usage
- The text is in Classical Modern Irish. (ga)
Keywords: bardic; poetry; 17c
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(Most recent first)
- 2010-11-11: New wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-10-11: Minor changes made to header, line-breaks re-arranged; keywords added; dates added. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
- 2005-08-04T16:12:20+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
- 2003-05-14: Minor changes made 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))