Seághan Ó Coileáin
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- p.234
- Oídhche dhamh go doilg, dúbhach,
chois fhairge na dtonn dtréun,
ag léursmuaíneadh a's ag luadh,
air chorraibh chruadha an tsaoghail, - Bhídh an ré 's na réulta suas,
níor chlos fuaim toinne ná tráigh.
's ní raibh gal ann de'n ngaoith
do chroithfeadh bárr craínn ná bláith. - Do ghluaiseas ag machtnamh a 'm aon,
gan aire agam air raon mo shiúbháil,
dorus cille gur dhearc mé,
's an gconair réidh ar mo chionn. p.236 - Do stad mé 's an dorus tsean,
'nar ghnáith almsanna a's aoídheacht,
d'á ndáil don lobhair agus do'n lag,
an tráth mhair luchd an tíghe. - Bhídh forradh fiar air a thaobh,
is cian ó cuireadh a chlódh,
air a suigheadh saoíthe a's cliar,
a's taistiollaich thriallta an róid. - Shuidh mé síos le machtnamh lán,
do léigeas mo lámh faoí m' ghruadh,
gur thuit frasa diana déur,
ó'm dhearcaibh air an bhféur anuas. - A dúbhairt mé ann sin fá dhíth,
a's mé ag caoídh go cúmhach,
Do bhídh aímsir ann 'n a raibh,
an teach-so go soilbh, súbhach. - Is ann do bhíodh cloig a's cliar,
dréuchda a's díadhachd d'á léughadh,
córaídhe, ceatal agus ceól,
ag moladh mórdhachda Dé. p.238 - Fotharach fholamh, gan áird,
agus so is aésda túr,
is iomdha easgal agus gaoth,
do bhuail fá mhaol do mhúr. - Is iomdha fearthainn is fuacht,
agus stoirm cuain do chuiris dhíot,
ó tíodhlaiceadh thú air dtúis,
do rígh na ndúl mar thígheas. - A Mhuir naomhtha na mbeann nglas,
do b'órnáid do'n tír-so tráth,
is diombáidh dian liom do scrios,
agus cur do naoímh air fán! - Is uaigneach ataoír anois!
Ní fhuil ionnat córaídhe ná ceól,
acht sgréuchadh na gceann-cat
ann ionad na psailm sógh ail! - Eídheann ag eascar ós do stuaigh,
neanntóg ruadh a'd úrlár úr,
tabhthann caol na seannach seang,
a's crónán na n-eas a'd chlúid. p.240 - Mar a nglaodhadh an fhuiseóg mhoch,
do chleir ag canadh na dtráth,
ní fhuil teangadh ag corruídhe anois,
acht teangadh ghliogair na gcág. - Tá do phroínnteach gan bhiadh,
do shuan-lios gan leaba bhláith,
do thearmoinn gan íodhbairt cliar,
ná aithfrionn do Dhia 'g á rádh, - D'imthigh do luaim a's do riaghail,
a's do chualacht fá chian cháidh,
och! ní fhionnaim anois fá'd iadhadh
acht cárnán criadhta cnámh. - Och! anfhorlann a's an-uaill,
anbhroid, an-uais agus aindlíghe,
fóirneart namhad a's creachadh cruadh,
d' f[h]úig uaigneach tú mar taoír! - Do bhídh-sa féin sona seal!
faraoíor do chlaochloidh mo chlódh!
tháinigh tóir an t-saoghail a'm aghaidh,
ní'l féidhm orm acht brón! p.242 - D'imthigh mo luadhaill a's mo lúth,
radharc mo shúl agus mo threóir,—
táid mo cháirde agus mo chlann,
's an gcíll-si go fann ag dreóghadh! - Tá duairceas ar mo dhreach!
tá mo chroídhe 'n a chrotal cnódh!
dá bhfóirfeadh orm an bás,
budh dhearbh m'f[h]áilte fá na chómhair!
Mac[h]tnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich
Seághan Ó Coileáin ró chan.
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Title (): Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich
Title (firstline): Oídhche dhamh go doilg, dúbhach
Author: Seághan Ó Coileáin
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Date: 2014
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CELT document ID: G402579
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Manuscript sources
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 659 (formerly 24 A 22), "written by Mícheál Ó Horgáin, 1824" (O'Rahilly 213).
- Maynooth, Mur[phy] 48, p. 66; "this part possibly in the hand of Bishop Murphy; dated 1818 on title-page" (O'Rahilly 213).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 24 C 13, p. 81, "written by Rev. Matthew Horgan" (O'Rahilly 213).
Editions and Translations
- Thomas Furlong, 'The Mourner's Soliloquy in the Ruined Abbey of Timoleague', in James Hardiman, Irish Minstrelsy, 235-43. [An English translation in six-line verses.]
- J. C. Mangan, 'Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga', The Nation, 8 August 1846. [Reproduced online at https://manganpaper.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/lament-over-the-ruins-of-the-abbey-of-teach-molaga/] Reprinted in John O'Daly, 'The Irish Language Miscellany' (Dublin 1876).
- Sir Samuel Ferguson, prose [?] translation, Dublin University Magazine III. 465-6, 1834). Ser., 1860 [p. 71-3].
- Sir Samuel Ferguson, Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague, in: Specimens of the early native poetry of Ireland in English metrical translations, ed. Henry Montgomery Riddell. New and enlarged edition (Dublin 1892), 283–286. Reprinted in: A Book of Irish Verse: selected from modern writers with an Introduction and notes by W.B. Yeats. Revised edition (London 1900).
- T. F. O'Rahilly, Measgra Dánta, poem 59, p. 158–61, which contains an Irish version with modernized spelling (online at CELT in file G402568) and notes p. 213–17.
Literature
- Eugene Daly, 'Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817)', Skibbereen and District Historical Society Journal 2 (2006) 31–47.
- Bláthnaid Uí Chatháin, 'An eigse i gCairbre agus sa cheantar máguaird (Poetry in Carbery and in the surrounding area) (1750-1850)', Iris Muintir Mhathghamhna: The O'Mahony Journal 30 (2007) 27–36.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich: The Mourner’s Soliloquy in the ruined Abbey of Timoleague’ (1831). In: Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English Poetical Translations. Ed. by James Hardiman. Vol. 2. 234, 236, 238, 240, 242. London: Joseph Robins.
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Creation: By Seághan Ó Coileáin, (John Collins or John O'Cullane), of Myross (1754–1817)
Date: June 1814
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- The text is in Modern Irish, but uses archaizing spelling. (ga)
Keywords: romantic; poetry; 19c; Timoleague Abbey
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(Most recent first)
- 2014-02-04: TEI header completed; file parsed, SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2014-02-03: Provisional TEI header created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2014-02-02: Irish text typed in, proofed (2); TEI-conformant XML markup applied; lines numbered; header created; file converted, file parsed. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2014-01: Copy of Hardiman's and O'Rahilly's edition donated to CELT. (ed. An t-Ollamh Seán Ó Coileáin)