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Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh

Author: Earl Gerard Fitzgerald

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Funded by University College Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 700 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G402258

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Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. The text is reproduced with the kind permission of the estate of Thomas F. O'Rahilly.

Sources

Manuscript sources
1. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv 72/1/37 (Book of the Dean of Lismore).
2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 38.
3. Maynooth, Russell Library, B 6.
4. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 L 37.

Editions
1. Thomas F. O'Rathilly, Dánta Grádha: an anthology of Irish love poetry (A.D.1350-1750), second edition (Cork 1926).
2. Gearóid MacNiocaill, Duanaire Ghearóid Iarla, Studia Hibernica 3 (1963) 7-59.
3. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vol IV, p. 325 (New York 2002). Includes English translation by Thomas Kinsella from The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Thomas F. O'Rathilly, Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh in Dánta Grádha, Ed. Thomas F. O'Rathilly. , Cork, Cork University Press (1926) page 4

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Profile Description

Created: By Earl Gerald Fitzgerald (Gearóid Iarla Mac Gearailt) (1338-98) Date range: c.1375–1398.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Classical Modern Irish.

Revision History

• (2015-04-24)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header created; file proofed (1) and encoded, parsed and validated, SGML and HTML versions created.
• (1998)

  Students at the CELT project (ed.)

• Text captured by scanning.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G402258

Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh: Author: Earl Gerard Fitzgerald

p.4

1. 1] Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh!
   2] bheith dá n-éagnach ní dáil chruinn,
   3] a bhfuaradar do ghuth riamh
   4] dom aithne ní hiad do thuill.
2. 5] Binn a mbriathra, gasta a nglór,
   6] aicme rerab mór mo bháidh;
   7] a gcáineadh is mairg nár loc;
   8] mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh.
3. 9] Ní dhéanaid fionghal ná feall,
   10] ná ní ar a mbeith grainc ná gráin;
   11] ní sháraighid cill ná clog;
   12] mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh.
4. 13] Ní tháinig riamh acht ó mhnaoi
   14] easbag ná rí (dearbhtha an dáil),
   15] ná priomhfháidh ar nách biadh locht;
   16] mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh.
5. 17] Agá gcroidhe bhíos a ngeall;
   18] ionmhain leó duine seang slán,—
   19] fada go ngeabhdaois a chol;
   20] mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh.
6. 21] Duine arsaidh leathan liath
   22] ní hé a mian dul 'na dháil;
   23] annsa leó an buinneán óg bocht;
   24] mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh!