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1213. Liaigh gach gona gras Muire $
Length: short 7qq (incomplete)
Certainty: 2
Period:
  1. 16th ult
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. Other mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Cambr. Add MS 3082 O’Reillys 1598-9
Prints:
  1. text Carney POR no. xxi
Motifs:
  1. poet invoking blessing
  2. imagery for BVM
  3. church’s immunity in wartime observed
  4. poetry offered to God
  5. Arthurian allusion
  6. sickness
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Aodh mac Diarmata
Poet Surnames:
  1. Mac an Bhaird (Cambr. Add. 3082)
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Pilib mac Aodha
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Raighilligh d. 1596
Meter Vars:
  1. RannBheag
Poem:

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Liaigh gach gona grás Muire


[Carney, James: Poems on the O’Reillys, Dublin, 1950, poem 21]


Aodh Mac an Bhaird mac Diarmada


1 Liaigh gach gona grás Muire,

liaigh rén cosmhail [cládh] neimhe,

luibh chobhra ar chiaigh don uile,

Muire ar liaigh cobhra cneidhe.

2 Liaigh fíre an liaigh dá leantair,

ar ndín-ne ón liaigh ní locthair;

liaigh do fhóir inn ór ndeacruibh,

cóir leantair don fhinn fholtghloin.

3 As sí an liaigh-si dá labhruim,

liaigh as dísle ar gach ndoghruing,

ainm don liaigh muir ós minlinn,

liaigh inghill ’gá bhfuil foghluim.

4 Mac Aodha ar n-uaitne feadhma,

ar ccaor bhuaidhe as beag labhra,

luibh grás dá ghuin go bhfoghbha

fuil Chonnla a ccás na cabhra.

5 Grás Muire dhúinn as deighliaigh

re ndula ’san dún tirmshídh,

fan nguin-sin an óig armruaidh,

Balbhuaidh Fhóid Uisnigh fhinnmhín.

6 Sirim ar naomhaibh nimhe

[as itghe do thaobh thola]

ar mo dhán, ní duais eile,

cládh neimhe ó ghuais na gona.

7 Nír thuill Filib fuair umhla

[d’fhilidh as uair dá labhra]

guil ’s gach taoibh uaidh gidh iomdha

diomdha naoimh dár bhuail Banbha.