Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E860001-011

The Downfall of the Gael

Author: Samuel Ferguson

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Andrea Lane

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 1296 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2016)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E860001-011

Availability [RESTRICTED]

The works by Sir Samuel Ferguson are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research or teaching.

Notes

This is Ferguson's translation of the seventeenth-century poem 'Mo thruaighe mar táid Gaoidhil' by Fearflatha Ó Gnímh. Fearflatha was head of the Ó Gnímhs, who were hereditary poets to the O'Neills of Clandeboye, in the modern area Antrim and Down. His floruit was between 1602 and 1638, and the poem was his answer to the collapse of the Gaelic Order with the Flight of the Earls on 14 September 1607. The Irish poem is available at CELT in file G402568, no. 55.

Sources

    Life and Work of Sir Samuel Ferguson
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    Online resources
  1. Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson is available on www.archive.org.
  2. Biographical infromation on Fearflatha Ó Gnímh (in Irish) is available on http://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1444.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Samuel Ferguson The Downfall of the Gael in , Ed. Alfred Perceval Graves Poems of Sir Samuel Ferguson. Talbot Press, Dublin, (1918) pages 38–41

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electric Texts

Sampling Declaration

The whole poem.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

The text has been proof-read twice.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text.

Hyphenation

The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained.

Segmentation

div0= the individual poem, quatrains are markedlg.

Interpretation

Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for social and cultural roles are not tagged.

Profile Description

Created: (1864)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

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