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754. Do chuala fein fada o shoin $
Length: short 6qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 17th mid
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. eulogy cp
Manuscripts:
  1. Stoneyhurst A/II/20ii C. O Corbain 1701
  2. RIA 257 (23/G/24) M.OgOLongain 1795-
  3. Mayn. M 1 Micheal Og O Longain 1818
  4. Mayn. M 2 Micheal Og O Longain 1818
  5. RIA 284 (F/ii/4) P. O Longain 1820
Prints:
  1. transl. Archiv. Hib. i (1912), 94-5, 113-14
Motifs:
  1. imagery for patron
  2. qualities of patron’s character
  3. patron aithghin of illustrious ancestor
  4. historical precedent
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Conchobhar Og (Stoneyhurst MS)
Poet Surnames:
  1. Mac an Bhaird
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Eoin
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Cuileannain (d. 1661, Bp of Raphoe)
Apologue Subclasses:
  1. Cormac mac Cuileannain: his reign
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

Poem in printable PDF format

Do chuala féin fada ó shoin


[John MacErlean (ed. & transl.), ‘Eoin Ó Cuileannáin: Bishop of Raphoe, 1625-1661’, Archivium Hibernicum, 1 (1912), 77-121, poem 5]


Conchobhar Óg Mac an Bhaird cct.


1 Do chuala féin fada ó shoin

gur hoirneadh i gcrích Caisil

triath do bhar bhfuilsi a dhreach náir

Cormac cáidh mac Cuileannáin


2 Do móradh an eaglais re a linn

ó Luimneach soir go Duibhlinn

gan fáth baoghail thiar nó thoir

tre briathraibh diadha an deighfhir.


3 Ní d’iomarbháidh le dreich mbuig

teann mé as riaghail easpuig

géag fhíneamhna dá fhuil féin

labhram na aghaidh eiséin.


4 Tusa ar gCormac a leith Cuinn

tug dia dar gcobhair chuguinn

t’fhuighle beannuighthe a fhir ghráidh

dúinn ba comartha conáigh.


5 Geanmnaidheacht eagna agus fuil

ionnaibh mar Chormac Chaisil

is tusa a mhac samhla sain

ag teagasc cháich na gciontaibh


6 Do chuala féin roimhe so

dá Eoin ar aonréir Íosa

an treas Eoin do shompla cháigh

Eoin beannuighthe Ó Cuileannáin. DO CHUALA FÉIN