Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G402579

Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich

Author: Seághan Ó Coileáin

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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by School of History, University College Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 1370 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork.
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(2014)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G402579

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 659 (formerly 24 A 22), "written by Mícheál Ó Horgáin, 1824" (O'Rahilly 213).
  2. Maynooth, Mur[phy] 48, p. 66; "this part possibly in the hand of Bishop Murphy; dated 1818 on title-page" (O'Rahilly 213).
  3. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 24 C 13, p. 81, "written by Rev. Matthew Horgan" (O'Rahilly 213).
    Editions and Translations
  1. Thomas Furlong, 'The Mourner's Soliloquy in the Ruined Abbey of Timoleague', in James Hardiman, Irish Minstrelsy, 235–43. [An English translation in six-line verses.]
  2. J. C. Mangan, 'Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga', The Nation, 8 August 1846. [Reproduced online at https://manganpaper.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/lament-over-the-ruins-of-the-abbey-of-teach-molaga/] Reprinted in John O'Daly, 'The Irish Language Miscellany' [with translation by J. C. Mangan]. Dublin, 1876.
  3. John O'Daly, 'The Irish Language Miscellany' [with translation by J. C. Mangan]. (Dublin 1876).
  4. Prose and verse translation, the latter by Sir Samuel Ferguson, 'Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy. No III 'IV (the last part of a review article, which has an appendix with literal prose and verse translations of some of the poems edited by Hardiman), pp. 514-542, Dublin University Magazine, November 1834.
  5. Verse translation by Sir Samuel Ferguson, Specimens of the early native poetry of Ireland in English metrical translations, ed. Henry Montgomery Riddell. New and enlarged edition (Dublin 1892), 283–286. Reprinted in: A Book of Irish Verse: selected from modern writers with an Introduction and notes by W.B. Yeats> Revised edition (London 1900).
  6. T. F. O'Rahilly, Measgra Dánta, poem 59, p. 158–61, which contains an Irish version with modernized spelling (online at CELT in file G402568) and notes p. 213–17.
    Literature
  1. Eugene Daly, 'Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817)', Skibbereen and District Historical Society Journal 2 (2006) 31–47.
  2. Bláthnaid Uí Chatháin, 'An eigse i gCairbre agus sa cheantar máguaird (Poetry in Carbery and in the surrounding area) (1750-1850)', Iris Muintir Mhathghamhna: The O'Mahony Journal 30 (2007) 27–36.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. James Hardiman, Machtnadh an Duine Dhoilghiosaich: The Mourner's Soliloquy in the ruined Abbey of Timoleague in Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English Poetical Translations, Ed. James Hardiman. , London, Joseph Robins (1831) volume 2page 234, 236, 238, 240, 242

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Profile Description

Created: By Seághan Ó Coileáin, (John Collins or John O'Cullane), of Myross (1754–1817) (June 1814)

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Modern Irish, but uses archaizing spelling.

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