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exact corner of the nearby field where the poet had run his hedge school, and the spot on the lough shore where he had fallen asleep and had his vision. This was, and is, the first circle where
Merriman's poem flourished and continues to flourish. Later that evening, for example, in a marquee a couple of miles down the road, we attended a performance by the
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in Co. Clare, where the opening scene of 'The
Midnight Court' is set. The memorial is a large stone quarried from a hill overlooking the lake, and the opening lines are carved on it in Irish. The people who attended the ceremony were almost all from the local district, and were eager to point out the
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in exactly the same way. The male and female lawyers' denunciations of unhappy marriages, whether they were entered into for the wrong or the right reasons, are also part of a very old and long established tradition in Irish literature in the Irish language. To drive this point home, Mercier, drawing
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and describes her many failed attempts to become his wife. She declares that, despite the poet's crooked back and extreme ugliness, none of that would matter in a darkened bedroom. She therefore demands that
Merriman must be the first man to suffer the consequences of the new marriage law. As a crowd
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who boast of the numbers of single and married women whose lives they have ruined. Aoibheal tells the women to be careful, however, not to flog any man until he is unable to father children. She also states that abolishing priestly celibacy is beyond her mandate. She expresses a belief, however, that
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men and women leaped the fires that they might be fruitful, and after scattered the ashes that the fields might be fruitful also? Certainly it is not possible to read his verses without being shocked and horrified as city onlookers were perhaps shocked and horrified at the free speech and buffoonery
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is undoubtedly one of the greatest comic works of literature, and certainly the greatest comic poem ever written in
Ireland. … It is a poem of gargantuan energy, moving clearly and pulsatingly along a simple story line, with a middle, a beginning and an end. For a poem of over one thousand lines it
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wrote, "On the morning of New Year's Day 2005 – the year of the 200th anniversary of
Merriman's death – I dreamed about Merriman. I was wandering on a dark hillside when I saw a light in the distance. I followed it, and came to a little house. The door was ajar; timidly, I pushed it open. Merriman
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crowd, as the old man and the young woman battled it out and the president of the court gave her judgement. The psychosexual demons were no longer at bay but rampant and fully recognised, so that the audience, at the end of the performance, came away from the experience every bit as accused and
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As the morally bankrupt lawyer for the women famously urges him to do in the poem, Merriman married Feakle resident
Kathleen Collins around 1787 and became the father of two daughters. Some years later, possibly due to relaxation of Penal Laws forbidding Catholics from owning land by the 1793
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Even so, Corkery continues, the Irish-language poetry of the era, "is, contrariwise, a rich thing, a marvellous inheritance, bright with music, flushed with colour, deep with human feeling. To see it against the dark world that threw it up, is to be astonished, if not dazzled."
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Finally, in the judgement section, Queen
Aoibheal announces that there is nothing wrong with marriage and that she admires men who work hard every day to provide for their families. She, therefore, rules that all laymen must marry before the age of 21, on pain of
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cemetery, who remain conscious inside their coffins. The dead proceed, however, to spend the whole novel viciously quarrelling with one another about past events in their lives and romantic relationships, about who was right and who was wrong during the
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Corkery further explains that
Merriman and other poets of the era like him, "were all poor men, very often sore-troubled where and how to find shelter, clothing, food, at the end of a day's tramping. Their native culture is ancient, harking back to
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The young woman explains that the old man's wife was a homeless beggar who married him to avoid starvation. She graphically describes the many, many attempts that the old man's wife made to consummate the marriage, only to find her elderly husband
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in which the poem was given a dramatic presentation with all the boost and blast-off that song and music and topical allusion could provide. Again, hundreds of local people were in the tent, shouting and taking sides like a
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declared, "Perhaps I can convey the ongoing reality of the poem's life more simply by recollecting a
Saturday evening last August when I had the privilege of unveiling a memorial to Brian Merriman on the shore of
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absolved as the poet himself at the end of his poem. The 'profane perfection of mankind' was going ahead and civilisation was being kept on course; in a ceremony that was entirely convincing and contemporary,
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during his own era. For example, when mentioning the moment when the female lawyer taunts Brian
Merriman for being thirty years old and still unmarried, Vivian Mercier points out that the women of the
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at the hands of Ireland's understandably frustrated and outraged women. The poet is saved from being the first flogging victim at the last minute by waking up and realizing that the trial was all a
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At his own request, Brian Merriman's body was returned to his native district and now lies buried in Feakle graveyard. In August 1992, a stone monument to Brian Merriman, with the opening lines of
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poem in the original. O'Connor also wrote that everything in his translation that the Irish State considered to be obscene was also present in Merriman's original poem in Irish. In his book,
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riffing of the Gaelic metre (befuddled and boozed in a bibulous Babel)... For all its problems with the censor, Frank O'Connor's version is the drawing room performance; this one's for the
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of infuriated single women gleefully prepares to flog Brian Merriman into a quivering bowl of jelly, he awakens along the shore of Loch Gréine to find it was all a terrible nightmare.
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poetry from the same era, "The Midnight Court", according to Daniel Corkery, "almost two hundred years after its creation, has been found alive on the lips of fishermen and ditchers!"
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into German, that O'Connor had introduced a blasphemous line that wasn't in the original text. O'Connor responded in print that Professor Hogan did not know enough German to read an
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has few longeurs. It is full of tumultuous bouts of great good humour, verbal dexterity and rabelesian ribaldry. It is a mammoth readable achievement with little need of gloss."
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In the first part, a young woman declares her case against the young men of Ireland for their refusal to marry. She complains that despite increasingly desperate flirtation at
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and the improvised trading of insults in verse, much like that between the two lawyers in Merriman's poem. Also according to Corkery, much of the serious, improvised, and
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has been nailed. The giantess wakes up the poet, scolds him for sleeping in a ditch while court is in session, and drags him kicking and screaming into the presence of
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In the opening section of the poem, the poet declares his love for walking alone in the countryside of County Clare, which he describes lyrically. After walking past a
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and the gossip which has surrounded the "premature" birth of "his" son ever since. Then, however, the old man declares that there is nothing wrong with his wife's
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of the Irish State in 1945. Soon after, O'Connor's translation was attacked in print and O'Connor replied. O'Connor alleges that the subsequent debate in
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Corkery writes, therefore, "Such men cannot be thought of as wayside singers who rhymes the local event. They were what they claimed to be, the
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has posted excerpts on their website. For added contrast, the same passages are also reproduced from a modern dramatic reading of the poem.
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expressed a then commonly held belief that Brian Merriman supported the "solutions" argued by the two lawyers: the complete rejection of
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landlords, "who pick the bones of the Irish clean." Furthermore, the Queen is also horrified by how the judges invariably twist
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who was working on the walls of the Deer Park at Ennistymon House, which later became the Falls Hotel. The family moved to
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The young woman, however, is infuriated by the old' man's words and is barely restrained from physically assaulting him.
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and denounces marriage as "out of date." He demands that the Queen outlaw it altogether and replace it with a system of
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in the 18th century". Service, however, harshly criticized the female lawyer as, "a petulant, infantile 18th-century
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who had been demoted to queen of the fairies since the Christianization the
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The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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landlord. His mother, though, is known to have been surnamed Quilkeen.
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throughout the 18th century, which is replete with allusions to both
2794:"The Irish Novel That's So Good People Were Scared to Translate It"
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Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century
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was founded in 1967 to promote the poet's work. They run an annual
1728:, from the first millennium to the 1805 death of Brian Merriman in
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and is written in the voices of the dead bodies buried in a rural
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1091:, he also expresses a belief that Merriman was mainly inspired by
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505:, Merriman is known to have owned a 20-acre (81,000 m) farm near
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is believed to have written an unpublished version, since lost.
1301:", Vivian Mercier disagreed strongly with those who interpreted
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907:, or Poetic Court. Like the trial in Merriman's poem, a Munster
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spoken by Brian Merriman, but into the now-extinct dialect of
219:. Merriman's poem has also been adapted at least twice into a
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She is answered by an old man who first denounces the wanton
376:. As Daniel Corkery further writes, "The first article in an
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and once into an opera by living composer of Classical music
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In an article about his own translation of Merriman's poem,
1770:, but instead he has opted for the hop, step and jump of an
1468:, has compared the play to similar works comic poetry from
354:, includes many of the greatest and most immortal works of
120:. In what has been described as, "a battle of the sexes in
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At the end of a 1993 lecture on Merriman's life and work,
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poem. According to Daniel Corkery, "The Aisling proper is
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form of a two-part debate followed by the judge's ruling.
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The poem describes a lawsuit before the judicial bench of
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has also been adapted into a 2018 opera by award-winning
19:"The Midnight Court" redirects here. For other uses, see
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Kings, Lord's, and Commons: An Anthology from the Irish
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Kings, Lord's, and Commons: An Anthology from the Irish
476:, "Had Mac Giolla Meidhre before his mind the fires of
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Kings, Lords, and Commons: An Anthology from the Irish
179:. It is widely regarded as the greatest work of Irish
2935:"www.irishplayography.com/person.aspx?personid=31938"
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According to Frank O'Connor, a German translation of
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In recent years, Merriman's poem and other Irish and
1484:("The Women's Parliament") and Brian Merriman's 1780
1297:, who had alleged in 1913, "Brian was essentially a
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In a 1993 lecture on Brian Merriman's life and work,
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While Yeats points out the plot similarities between
330:, this would not have been uncommon at the time. The
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Shortly after his birth, Merriman's mother married a
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A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look
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A Short History of Irish Literature: A Backward Look
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The language of Merriman's poem is a mixture of the
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183:and one of the most iconic works in the history of
2780:Eilein na h-Ă’ige: The Poems of Fr. Allan MacDonald
558:as the best poem written in Gaelic, and as I read
3050:Ciaran Carson on Translating "The Midnight Court"
1542:, had studied Irish language comic literature at
1278:", "a battle of the sexes in fairyland", and, "a
588:announced the discovery of an 1817 manuscript of
528:. In Limerick City, Merriman continued to teach.
524:his two beautiful daughters for the purposes of
2188:"Walk of the Week: Ballycroum Loop, East Clare"
1672:, which is the most popular, was banned by the
1099:, particularly the love stories told about the
903:of a district would preside over sessions of a
513:awarded Merriman two prizes for his flax crop.
73:poetry tradition, the battle of the sexes, and
1421:. It was eventually published in 1850, by the
685:, and their replacement by lowborn but greedy
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2739:CĂşirt an Mheadhon Oidhche by Brian Merriman:
2684:CĂşirt an Mheadhon Oidhche by Brian Merriman:
2644:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Pages 281–282.
2102:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Pages 281–286.
2089:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Pages 281–286.
2076:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Pages 281–286.
2012:CĂşirt an Mheadhon Oidhche by Brian Merriman:
493:was a vivid memory, but, with the failure of
43:(c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an 18th-century
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2657:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Page 285–286.
2750:Gadelica: A Journal of Modern Irish Studies
2695:Gadelica: A Journal of Modern Irish Studies
2023:Gadelica: A Journal of Modern Irish Studies
1626:Notable English versions have been made by
1010:? He questions her, and learns that she is
584:Furthermore, in 2018, Irish dialectologist
4471:Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland
4394:CĂşirt International Festival of Literature
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1230:("The Sorrowful Man After His Marriage").
516:Around 1800, the Merriman family moved to
1509:The influence Merriman's Cervantes-esque
1384:is a truly unique work in the history of
1332:who enriched themselves by converting to
3350:Maol Sheachluinn na n-UirsgĂ©al Ă“ hĂšigĂnn
2867:New Nations and Peoples Library: Ireland
2561:, Selected by Mrs. W.B. Yeats. Page 281.
2317:, Trinity University Press. Pages 48–49.
2186:Somerville, Christopher (11 June 2011).
1464:. Ronald Black, a well known scholar of
1270:'s new operatic adaptation of the poem,
1202:whose narrators are every bit as bawdy,
338:, and hired labourers. Furthermore, the
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1194:, which cites many other works of both
533:General Advertiser and Limerick Gazette
308:and who was reportedly a very talented
191:and of the moral foibles of small town
1170:and other similar writers of the era,
915:" delivering often humorously worded "
489:were still in force though weakening,
4481:Censorship in the Republic of Ireland
1798:was sitting by the hearth, wearing a
1686:claimed to have found, after reading
1636:Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
1567:. The whole novel takes place during
747:in a ditch. He vividly describes the
235:In accounts collected from the local
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4039:Timna CathaĂr Máir CaithrĂ©im Cellaig
2908:, Hamish Hamilton, London. Page 299.
2782:, Mungo Press, Glasgow. Pages 41–43.
2752:, Vol. 1. No. 3 (1913), pp. 190–204.
2697:, Vol. 1. No. 3 (1913), pp. 190–204.
2365:, Trinity University Press. Page 48.
2330:, Trinity University Press. Page 49.
2291:, Trinity University Press. Page 48.
2025:, Vol. 1. No. 3 (1913), pp. 190–204.
1654:and a partial rhymed translation by
1534:. O'Brien, a career official of the
1513:may also be seen in the iconic 1938
1326:Eachtra Thaidhg Dhuibhne UĂ ChrĂłinĂn
1051:Alleged satire of Christian morality
547:may be said to have died with him."
50:, farmer, hedge school teacher, and
4476:Celtic mythology in popular culture
1913:composer of modern Classical music
1828:released a CD recording of a local
1700:A Short History of Irish Literature
665:On the way to the ruined church at
282:tomb in the nearby Ballycroum bog.
3407:SĂ©afraidh Ă“ Donnchadha an Ghleanna
2792:Brennan, William (17 March 2016).
1117:such as the, "old dialogues where
970:The poem begins by satirizing the
831:during the late 18th century. The
596:. The manuscript, which is signed
573:carved in Irish, was dedicated by
550:Yeats, on the other hand, wrote, "
472:Of the poem's infamous bawdiness,
139:has been compared to the works of
32:A statue of Merriman at Ennistymon
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4456:18th-century Irish-language poets
3280:Gilla Cómáin mac Gilla Samthainde
1879:has been remembered in Ireland."
1732:. Writing during the late 1960s,
1372:, his satirical treatment of the
1316:, such as the hugely influential
3397:Donnchadh Mac an Caoilfhiaclaigh
1944:Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
1368:has been replaced by all of the
960:Pierre-CĂ©cile Puvis de Chavannes
600:, renders the poem not into the
165:Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
4531:Works based on Celtic mythology
4181:The Wind That Shakes the Barley
4094:Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol
4089:CĂłir Connacht ar chath Laighean
2778:Edited by Ronald Black (2002),
1895:by acclaimed Irish playwrights
1360:Due to Merriman's mockery of a
1338:Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
895:existed. In what was also both
278:, which is still extant at the
4084:An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?
4074:A aonmhic DĂ© do cĂ©asadh thrĂnn
3305:Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
3205:Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin
3034:: text and English translation
2865:Terence de Vere White (1968),
1782:serves him well here with the
1684:National University of Ireland
1364:Ireland where the practice of
1228:An Fear BrĂłnach d'Ă©is a PhĂłsda
1:
4415:Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
4049:Is acher in gaĂth in-nocht...
4044:Le dĂs cuirthear clĂş Laighean
3027:, Clare County Public Library
3020:Dictionary of Irish Biography
2960:"Celia de Fréine – Biography"
2653:William Butler Yeats (1962),
2640:William Butler Yeats (1962),
2557:William Butler Yeats (1962),
2442:Dictionary of Irish Biography
2153:Dictionary of Irish Biography
2098:William Butler Yeats (1962),
2085:William Butler Yeats (1962),
2072:William Butler Yeats (1962),
1817:in County Clare each August.
1650:translation has been made by
4541:Writers from Limerick (city)
4461:19th-century Irish educators
4451:18th-century Irish educators
4121:Bean Torrach, fa Tuar Broide
3315:Máeleoin Bódur Ó Maolconaire
3210:Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe
2414:Brian Merriman and His Court
2039:Brian Merriman and His Court
1419:Cambridge University Library
1397:Literary and cultural legacy
251:who was on the run from the
187:in any language. Merriman's
2991:(in French). Archived from
2548:, Faber & Faber, p. 62.
1511:parody of the fantasy genre
1156:Marriage of Heaven and Hell
819:of the Bards with everyday
539:has alleged, incorrectly, "
189:parody of the fantasy genre
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4150:Suantraà dá Mhac Tabhartha
4079:A theachtaire tig Ăłn RĂłimh
3260:Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte
3195:Muircheartach Ă“ Cobhthaigh
1555:Modern literature in Irish
1466:Scottish Gaelic literature
1318:Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis
888:, a custom similar to the
697:to always support the new
374:Modern literature in Irish
52:Irish traditional musician
18:
4536:Writers from County Clare
4004:Faber Book of Irish Verse
3325:CĂş ChoigcrĂche Ă“ ClĂ©irigh
3250:Eoghan Carrach Ă“ Siadhail
3240:Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin
2763:The Irish Comic Tradition
2668:The Irish Comic Tradition
2363:Irish Writers on Writings
2328:Irish Writers on Writings
2315:Irish Writers on Writings
2289:Irish Writers on Writings
1847:Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
1790:in the wee small hours."
1738:Kings, Lords, and Commons
1544:University College Dublin
1255:Secularization of Ireland
1226:("The Old Monster"), and
951:Satire of Jacobite poetry
3215:Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh
3200:Gilla Mo Dutu Ăša Caiside
2939:www.irishplayography.com
2723:The Midnight Court Opera
2112:The Midnight Court Opera
1996:The Midnight Court Opera
1488:("The Midnight Court").
675:Flight of the Wild Geese
564:modern Gaelic literature
495:the last Jacobite rising
41:Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre
4115:The Prophecy of Berchán
4054:Is trĂşag in ces i mbiam
4022:The Wanderings of Oisin
3275:Tarlach Rua Mac DĂłnaill
3225:Donnchadh Mór Ó Dálaigh
3145:Contention of the bards
2883:"Touched by the Master"
2852:Frank O'Connor (1959),
2839:Frank O'Connor (1967),
2818:"Touched by the Master"
2767:Oxford University Press
2761:Vivian Mercier (1969),
2672:Oxford University Press
2666:Vivian Mercier (1969),
2619:"Touched by the Master"
2597:"Touched by the Master"
2583:Daniel Corkery (1926),
2570:Daniel Corkery (1926),
2518:Frank O'Connor (1959),
2497:"Touched by the Master"
2475:"Touched by the Master"
2453:"Touched by the Master"
2388:"Touched by the Master"
2374:Frank O'Connor (1968),
2340:"Touched by the Master"
2300:Daniel Corkery (1967),
2274:Daniel Corkery (1967),
2261:Daniel Corkery (1967),
2240:"Touched by the Master"
2218:"Touched by the Master"
2204:Daniel Corkery (1967),
2164:"Touched by the Master"
2128:"Touched by the Master"
2051:"Touched by the Master"
1755:'s 2006 translation of
1442:Parlamaid nan Cailleach
1249:through the embrace of
1187:upon a 1913 article by
919:" which summoned local
658:, the Queen of all the
592:in the archives of the
306:Irish traditional music
4521:People from Ennistymon
4198:Love Songs of Connacht
4064:An DĂbirt go Connachta
4059:Sen dollotar Ulaid ...
3785:Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin
3610:Mary Devenport O'Neill
3355:Philip Ă“ Duibhgeannain
3320:Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird
3310:Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh
3255:Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte
3150:Irish Literary Revival
3135:Chief Ollam of Ireland
2919:The Redress of Poetry,
2917:Seamus Heaney (1995),
2708:The Redress of Poetry,
2706:Seamus Heaney (1995),
2544:Seamus Heaney (1995),
1891:has been adapted into
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1815:Merriman Summer School
1806:Legacy in County Clare
1706:censorship imposed by
1376:, and his devastating
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635:
552:Standish Hayes O'Grady
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33:
4526:Underground education
4491:Irish fantasy writers
4363:Poetry Ireland Review
4315:Cork University Press
4069:Foraire Uladh ar Aodh
3469:James Clarence Mangan
3230:Lochlann Óg Ó Dálaigh
3190:Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin
3120:Irish syllabic poetry
3115:Metrical Dindshenchas
2964:www.celiadefreine.com
2906:Ireland and the Irish
2546:The Redress of Poetry
2361:Eavan Boland (2007),
2326:Eavan Boland (2007),
2313:Eavan Boland (2007),
2287:Eavan Boland (2007),
1957:The Dream of Rhonabwy
1863:Druid Theatre Company
1846:
1734:Terence de Vere White
1588:Literary translations
1450:Roman Catholic priest
1303:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
1260:In a 2006 review for
1184:John Millington Synge
958:
860:In a 1926 preface to
842:followed by a single
757:illegitimate children
699:Protestant Ascendancy
633:
249:Roman Catholic priest
77:fictionalisations of
31:
4501:Irish schoolteachers
4377:The Honest Ulsterman
4300:Lapwing Publications
4264:Seamus Heaney Centre
4126:Tuireamh na hÉireann
3660:Micheál Mac Liammóir
3285:Tadhg Dall Ă“ hĂšigĂnn
3270:Proinsias Ă“ Doibhlin
3245:Cormac Mac Con Midhe
3032:Cuirt an Mheán OĂche
2989:www.anasokolovic.com
2904:John Ardagh (1994),
2741:Risteard Ă“ Foghludha
2686:Risteard Ă“ Foghludha
2014:Risteard Ă“ Foghludha
1907:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
1889:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
1834:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1826:Clare County Library
1757:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1692:literary translation
1688:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1668:'s translation into
1621:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1594:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1486:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
1444:("The Parliament of
1409:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
1401:Like much Irish and
1388:in either language.
1382:Cúirt an Mheán Óiche
1140:Holy Willie's Prayer
866:William Butler Yeats
644:hunters on horseback
625:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
590:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
571:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
511:Royal Dublin Society
474:William Butler Yeats
415:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
230:
137:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
88:CĂşirt an Mheán OĂche
4340:The Dublin Magazine
4231:Prayer Before Birth
4210:Meeting The British
3770:Nora Tynan O'Mahony
3655:Nuala NĂ Dhomhnaill
3640:Máire Mhac an tSaoi
3494:Antoine Ă“ Raifteiri
3464:Charles Gavan Duffy
3300:Cináed ua hArtacáin
3265:Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa
3235:Fear Flatha Ă“ GnĂmh
3140:Irish bardic poetry
1973:List of Irish poets
1612:, and heavy use of
1540:War of Independence
1536:Irish civil service
1374:battle of the sexes
1224:An tArrachtach Sean
1222:("The Old Woman"),
1196:Irish bardic poetry
1146:Address to the Deil
1129:from the so-called
1108:Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
1088:Cadenus and Vanessa
1039:, which is also an
974:conventions of the
835:is the rarely used
612:formerly spoken in
594:Royal Irish Academy
503:Catholic Relief Act
195:have also had many
149:Miguel de Cervantes
4516:People from Feakle
4506:Mythological Cycle
4295:HardPressed Poetry
3951:Caitriona O'Reilly
3941:Bernard O'Donoghue
3760:Cathal Ă“ Searcaigh
3650:Gabriel Rosenstock
3504:Robert Dwyer Joyce
3371:Tomás Ó Cobhthaigh
3335:Ă“engus of Tallaght
2995:on 23 January 2018
2895:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2830:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2725:, by Tom Service,
2631:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2609:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2509:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2487:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2465:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2400:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2352:, Fri 3 June 2005.
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2230:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2176:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2140:, Fri 3 June 2005.
2114:, by Tom Service,
2063:, Fri 3 June 2005.
1998:, by Tom Service,
1950:Bored of the Rings
1883:In popular culture
1849:
1482:Párliament na mBan
1478:Domhnall Ó Colmáin
1366:Christian morality
1282:of the repressive
1239:Christian morality
1079:The Midnight Court
968:
911:would begin with "
884:, in 18th century
808:Language and metre
636:
598:Éamann Ó hOrchaidh
556:The Midnight Court
480:, for all through
478:Saint John's Night
466:The Midnight Court
94:The Midnight Court
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4399:SoundEye Festival
4348:Icarus (magazine)
4247:
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3946:Conor O'Callaghan
3800:Dennis O'Driscoll
3750:Eoghan Ă“ Tuairisc
3630:MáirtĂn Ă“ Direáin
3479:William Allingham
3423:Aogán Ó Rathaille
3402:Aogán Ó Rathaille
3387:Dáibhà Ó Bruadair
3364:15th/16th century
2922:Faber & Faber
2871:Thames and Hudson
2711:Faber & Faber
2192:Irish Independent
1978:MáirtĂn Ă“ Cadhain
1736:commented that, "
1598:iambic pentameter
1565:MáirtĂn Ă“ Cadhain
1527:At Swim-Two-Birds
1425:poetry collector
1378:social commentary
1370:Seven Deadly Sins
1307:sexual revolution
1276:sexual liberation
1257:since the 1960s.
1247:sexual repression
1218:("The Old Man"),
1064:literary scholars
876:The Poetic Courts
817:literary language
776:priestly celibacy
662:in County Clare.
642:being pursued by
396:language is dying
272:religious worship
209:MáirtĂn Ă“ Cadhain
153:François Rabelais
135:Brian Merriman's
4548:
4486:Fantasy parodies
4420:Poetry Now Award
4370:The Stinging Fly
4355:The Lace Curtain
3993:
3931:Sinéad Morrissey
3921:Brendan Kennelly
3775:Rita Ann Higgins
3720:Geoffrey Squires
3645:Michael Hartnett
3615:Patrick Kavanagh
3600:Thomas MacGreevy
3565:Francis Ledwidge
3560:Thomas MacDonagh
3438:Oliver Goldsmith
3392:Piaras Feiritéar
3340:Sedulius Scottus
3295:Colmán of Cloyne
3220:Flann mac Lonáin
3180:
3167:Táin Bó Cúailnge
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1210:, and seemingly
1189:literary scholar
1127:religious satire
931:would engage in
864:'s translation,
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3765:Bobby Sands
3745:Basil Payne
3740:Paul Durcan
3735:John Jordan
3690:Derek Mahon
3620:John Hewitt
3545:James Joyce
3529:Oscar Wilde
3489:James Henry
3443:John Hewitt
3290:NinĂne Éces
3110:Dán DĂreach
3041:(Bilingual)
2843:, page 226.
2803:21 February
2587:, page 129.
2535:, page 286.
2378:, page 130.
2208:, page 223.
1893:stage plays
1819:John Ardagh
1628:Anglo-Irish
1434:verse drama
1427:John O'Daly
1414:seanchaithe
1406:oral poetry
1272:Tom Service
1204:blasphemous
1068:The Bastard
1033:did in the
741:promiscuity
734:black magic
695:English Law
691:Anglo-Irish
683:Clan Chiefs
671:clan system
634:Loch Gréine
579:Loch Gréine
507:Loch Gréine
420:seanchaithe
392:Renaissance
340:oral poetry
321:Anglo-Irish
257:Anglo-Irish
54:from rural
4435:Categories
4273:Publishers
4099:Pangur Bán
3841:John Ennis
3805:Seán Dunne
2999:22 January
2969:22 January
2944:22 January
2873:. Page 99.
2416:, pg. 158.
2041:, pg. 158.
1984:References
1776:Irish jigs
1648:free verse
1610:Irish jigs
1476:, such as
1334:Puritanism
1212:nihilistic
1121:railed at
972:Mythopoeic
964:An Aisling
901:Chief-Bard
893:Eisteddfod
851:end rhymes
825:vernacular
749:infidelity
711:Brehon law
707:extinction
705:will face
687:Protestant
560:Mr. Ussher
487:Penal Laws
378:Ascendancy
323:landlord.
317:Protestant
280:megalithic
264:stonemason
245:Ennistymon
221:stage play
75:Mythopoeic
16:Irish poet
4358:(defunct)
4343:(defunct)
4317:(general)
4310:SurVision
3846:Pat Boran
2304:, page 9.
1832:reciting
1800:greatcoat
1772:anapestic
1708:Taoiseach
1577:Connemara
1362:dystopian
1251:free love
1104:Cuchulain
1097:mythology
998:? Is she
994:. Is she
992:immortals
827:of rural
803:Influence
761:free love
720:matches,
348:Classical
302:Kilclaren
295:Salamanca
276:Mass rock
241:Clondagad
197:emulators
130:nightmare
122:fairyland
3514:Speranza
2924:, p. 62.
2713:, p. 62.
1933:See also
1922:libretto
1872:football
1830:seanchaĂ
1765:Swiftian
1548:Aoibheal
1480:'s 1670
1462:Hebrides
1299:moralist
1182:taunted
1168:Voltaire
1101:demigods
1000:Gearnait
984:Jacobite
917:warrants
913:bailiffs
855:feminine
853:are all
844:Trochaic
840:Trimeter
837:Dactylic
796:bachelor
784:flogging
772:impotent
730:Satanism
679:outlawry
656:Aoibheal
367:literati
255:, or an
126:flogging
102:Aoibheal
4333:Cyphers
4104:Liamuin
3105:Aisling
3045:Ricorso
2985:"Vocal"
1939:Aisling
1877:Orpheus
1788:shebeen
1704:wartime
1571:in the
1472:in the
1458:Eriskay
1350:Chaucer
1241:by the
1123:Patrick
1041:aisling
1036:Inferno
996:Deirdre
976:Aisling
943:in the
933:Flyting
897:mimicry
886:Munster
718:hurling
681:of the
660:Fairies
652:warrant
648:bailiff
640:red fox
543:in the
482:Munster
358:in the
310:fiddler
291:Louvain
67:Aisling
4466:Aibell
4387:Events
4032:Bardic
3183:Bardic
3161:An GĂşm
3093:Topics
1867:Galway
1630:poets
1521:, and
1392:Legacy
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442:, and
404:felony
383:patois
268:Feakle
215:, and
175:, and
4238:D-Day
4014:Epics
3989:Poems
3176:Poets
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1008:Venus
1006:? Or
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978:, or
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833:meter
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