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1539. Ni maith eadram is mo mhac $
Length: short 7qq
Certainty: 2
Period:
  1. 13th ult
Areas:
  1. Connacht
Classes:
  1. Thanks mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Magauran MS 14th cent.
Prints:
  1. transl. McKenna, BM no. vii
Motifs:
  1. education of poets
  2. Material rewards for poetry
  3. liberality to poets
  4. proverb
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Giollaphadraig (Magauran MS)
Poet Surnames:
  1. MacNaimhin
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Brian
Patron Surnames:
  1. MagShamhradhain d. 1298
Meter Vars:
  1. RannMhor
Poem:

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Ní maith eadrum is mo mhac


[McKenna, L.: The book of Magauran, Dublin, 1947, poem 7]


Giolla Pádraig Mac Naimhin .cc.


1 Ní maith eadrum is mo mhac

fiarfaighidh damh créad mo chion;

an t-adhbhur bha bhfuil is baois,

inneosad daoibh gus a bhiog.

2 Each do fhuaras ar mo chuairt

ó Bhrian ó Ruairc na rosg ngorm;

mar do radsun an t-each damh

tig mo mhac gá hiarraidh orm.

3 A-dubhartsa [ris: “A] mhac,

bí id thosd, [a-taoi] d’aois gan chéill,

don bhaile a bhfuair mise soin

éirighse ar ceann eich dhuid féin.

4 “Eirighse ar ceann eich duid féin,

gabh umud red chléir ar cuairt,

acht go mbeara tú laoidh leat

do-gheabha tú each n-a duais.

5 “Acht [gé a-dréiseadh] Cailleach Dhall

eadrad agus barr na mBrian,

is beacht go bhfuighe tú each

[muna] leasg leat dul sa sliabh.

6 “An t-each do-ghéabha tú thuas

tairr féin a-nuas ar a muin;

fuath damh cliar shádhal n-a tosd,

‘i gcosaibh con bhíos a cuid’ ” .

7 Mág Amhradhán - eineach fial -

díolaidh sé gach cliar i gclí;

tearc Gaoidheal as fhearr fa each,

nochon éarann neach um ní.