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O'Brien of Ara

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

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The concluding stanza was found amoung the author's papers, and was inserted in the first edition. It is believed to have been a personal reference, not to any Geraldine but to William Smith O'Brien.

Sources

Source
1. First published in the Nation on 28 June 1845.

Other writings by Thomas Davis
1. Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
2. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.]
3. Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.]
4. Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
5. Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.]
6. Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
7. Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992.

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Created: by Thomas Davis (1845)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-014

O'Brien of Ara: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

p.310

1. Tall are the towers of O'Ceinneidigh,²
   Broad are the lands of MacCarrthaigh,³
   Desmond feeds five hundred men a-day;
   Yet, here's to O'Briain⁴ of Ara!
   Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,⁵
   Down from the top of Camailte,
   Clansman and kinsman are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.

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p.311

2. See you the mountains look huge at eve—
   So is our chieftain in battle—
   Welcome he has for the fugitive—
   Uisce-beatha⁶ fighting, and cattle!
   Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
   Down from the top of Camailte
   Gossip and ally are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.
3. Horses the valleys are tramping on,
   Sleek from the Sacsanach manger,
   Creachts the hills are encamping on,
   Empty the bawns of the stranger!
   Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
   Down from the top of Camailte,
   Ceithearn⁷ and buannacht are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.
4. He has black silver from Cill-da-lua⁸
   Rian⁹ and Cearbhall¹⁰ are neighbours,
   'N Aonach¹¹ submits with a fuililiú
   Butler is meat for our sabres!
   Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar
   Down from the top of Camailte,
   Rian and Cearbhall are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.

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p.312

5. 'Tis scarce a week since through Osairghe¹²
   Chased he the Baron of Durmhagh¹³—
   Forced him five rivers to cross, or he
   Had died by the sword of Red Murchadh!¹⁴
   Up from the Castle of Drum-aniar,
   Down from the top of Camailte,
   All the Ui Bhriain are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.
6. Tall are the towers of O'Ceinneidigh—
   Broad are the lands of MacCarrthaigh—
   Desmond feeds five hundred men a-day;
   Yet, here's to O'Briain of Ara!
   Up from the Castle of Druim-aniar,
   Down from the top of Camailte,
   Clansman and kinsman are coming here
   To give him the CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE.