Thomas Osborne Davis
Edited by T. W. Rolleston
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- p.310
- Tall are the towers of O'Ceinneidigh, 2
Broad are the lands of MacCarrthaigh, 3
Desmond feeds five hundred men a-day;
Yet, here's to O'Briain 4 of Ara!
Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar, 5
Down from the top of Camailte,
Clansman and kinsman are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE. p.311 - See you the mountains look huge at eve—
So is our chieftain in battle—
Welcome he has for the fugitive—
Uisce-beatha 6 fighting, and cattle!
Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
Down from the top of Camailte
Gossip and ally are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE. - Horses the valleys are tramping on,
Sleek from the Sacsanach manger,
Creachts the hills are encamping on,
Empty the bawns of the stranger!
Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
Down from the top of Camailte,
Ceithearn 7 and buannacht are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE. - He has black silver from Cill-da-lua 8
Rian 9 and Cearbhall 10 are neighbours,
'N Aonach 11 submits with a fuililiú
Butler is meat for our sabres!
Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar
Down from the top of Camailte,
Rian and Cearbhall are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE. p.312 - 'Tis scarce a week since through Osairghe 12
Chased he the Baron of Durmhagh 13 —
Forced him five rivers to cross, or he
Had died by the sword of Red Murchadh! 14
Up from the Castle of Drum-aniar,
Down from the top of Camailte,
All the Ui Bhriain are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE. - Tall are the towers of O'Ceinneidigh—
Broad are the lands of MacCarrthaigh—
Desmond feeds five hundred men a-day;
Yet, here's to O'Briain of Ara!
Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
Down from the top of Camailte,
Clansman and kinsman are coming here
To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.
O'Brien of Ara 1
Air: The Piper of Blessington
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Title (uniform): O'Brien of Ara
Author: Thomas Osborne Davis
Editor: T. W. Rolleston
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The concluding stanza was found amoung the author's papers, and was inserted in the first edition. It is believed to have been a personal reference, not to any Geraldine but to William Smith O'Brien.
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- First published in the Nation on 28 June 1845.
Other writings by Thomas Davis
- Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
- Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.]
- Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.]
- Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
- Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.]
- Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
- Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992.
Davis, Thomas Osborne (1910). ‘O’Brien of Ara’. In: Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry. Ed. by T. W. Rolleston. 310—312. Dublin and London: The Talbot Press.
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Creation: by Thomas Davis
Date: 1845
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Keywords: literary; poetry; 19c
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- 2012-05-08: Header created; file proofed (2); footnotes added, file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
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