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1165.
Is truagh cor chriche Banbha $
Length: very long 64qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
17th mid
Areas:
Ulster
Classes:
elegy mp
Manuscripts:
Stoneyhurst A/II/20ii C. O Corbain 1701
Prints:
Eoin MacCarthaigh Ph.D. (1994)
Motifs:
internal dating
caithreim
mercenary soldiers
war with Foreigners
Foreign conquest of Ireland
Hostages
nature mourns
plight of subjects on prince’s death
general grief
Poet Christian Names:
Gofraidh Og (Stoneyhurst MS)
Poet Surnames:
Mac an Bhaird
Patron Christian Names:
Maghnus mac Neill mhic Chuinn
Patron Surnames:
O Domhnaill d. 1646 (at battle of Benburb)
Meter Vars:
deibhidhe
Poem:
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