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