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1949. Uch is truagh mo ghuais on ngleobhruid •
Length: middling 29 stt
Certainty: 3
Period:
  1. 17th early
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. elegy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Mayn. C 59 ?early 18th c.
  2. RIA 211 (23/G/20) M.OgOLongain 1786-
  3. RIA 1382(23/O/73)Thos.Hickey 1814-30
  4. RIA 672 (23/C/21)E. Caomhanach 1816-
  5. Mayn. M 7 Peadar O Longain 1818
Prints:
  1. text Mac Giolla Eain, Danta Ceitinn, 24-9
Motifs:
  1. eulogy of personal appearance
  2. nobility of ancestry
  3. lesser arts
  4. liberality to poets
  5. nature mourns
  6. death at outset of triumphant career
  7. general grief
  8. poet’s own mourning
  9. Historical comparisons
  10. music
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Seathrun (RIA 211)
Poet Surnames:
  1. Ceitinn
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Seamus
Patron Surnames:
  1. Butler son of Earl of Knocktopher
Meter Vars:
  1. Amhran
Poem:
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