%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; %ISOdia; ]> Mairg duine bhraitheas é féin Mairg duine bhraitheas é féin An electronic edition Domhnall mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha Thomas F. O'Rahilly Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber University College Cork, School of History First draft. 1090 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork.
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 Manuscript sources Castlerea (Co. Roscommon), Clonalis House, Book of the O'Conor Don. Dublin, National Library of Ireland, G 448, written by Conchubhar Ó Luinín, 1712. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1411 (H 6 7), written by Donnchadh Ó Conaill, 1737. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 72/1/48. Dublin, National Library of Ireland, G 82, written by Seán Mac an tSaoir, 1744/45. Editions Thomas F. O'Rahilly, Dánta Grádha: an anthology of Irish love poetry (A.D.1350-1750), second edition (Cork 1926). John Minahane (ed), The Contention of the poets; an essay in Irish intellectual history (Bratislava 2000) 54-57, with English translation. The edition used in the digital edition Thomas F. O'Rahilly Mairg duine bhraitheas é féin Dánta Grádha Thomas F. O'Rahilly Cork Cork University Press 1926 113–115

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 Ascribed to the Irish bardic poet Domhnall mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha; the date range was supplied from the Bardic Poetry Database. 1575–1625 The text is in Classical Modern Irish. 2016-07-21 Beatrix Färber ed. SGML and HTML versions created. 2016-06-27 Beatrix Färber ed. Header created; file proofed (1) and encoded, queries resolved using information from the Bardic Poetry Database at the DIAS website; file parsed and validated. 1998 Students at the CELT project ed. Text captured by scanning. Mairg duine bhraitheas é féin! mo bheart is dá héis do-chím; ní fhionnfa neach fir ná mná mo rún féin go bráth a-rís. A bhean chumainn, a chruth fial, do bhí agam riamh i ngioll, (mairg léigeas a rún le mnaoi!) fuaire a chách a-taoi fám chionn. Oram féin do fríth an locht, — ní beag nod dá chur i gcéill; tig an cumann druim-tar-ais, buailtear duine dá shlait féin. Ní thiubhrthá orlach ar ór díom, a inghean is óg snuadh; ciodh gearr ó 'niugh gus i-né, do bhuaidhir mé an t-uisge suas. Méad na toile tugais dúinn mairg dár gealladh, a ghnúis nár, umam féin ó 'taoi go fuar; comhfhada théid fuath is grádh. Do chuala féin fad' ó riamh cumann deise do dhiall ruinn, — duine i Mumhain na múr ngeal díobh, is duine do Leath Chuinn. Do bhádar dá bhliadhain déag an dá sgoláir (fá sgéal suairc) gan deadhail — gá díochra searc ar fud Éireann teas is tuaidh? D'éis a múinte i mbailtibh sgol, dála an chúpla ar nách gclos béim, do thionnsgain gach duine dhíbh dol an tráth-soin dá thír féin. Do b'iad ráite an fhir a-ndeas, 's an sruth déar ag teacht re a ghruaidh; "Ní dóigh go bhfaiceam, a ghrádh, gnúis a chéile go lá an Luain." "Dá dtí," ar an sgoláir a-dtuaidh, "olc do cheachtar uainn dá bhríogh, ós ag deadhail dúinn ar ndias, go madh dhuitse bhias a dhíoth!" D'éis ar gcumainn gus a-nocht ní mór, a bhean na bhfolt slim, nách í freagra an fhir a-dtuaidh fuaras uait ag sgaradh rinn. Ní hí h'anshocracht ná t'fhearg, ní díth céille, ní ceard bhaoth, ní cruas, ní droichtheist, ní tnúth, do-bheir deadhail dún ar-aon. Gan tú san chúige i mbíodh Meadhbh, nó i gcrích Laighean na learg réidh, nó i ndúthaigh Dheadhaidh mhic Shin, — tug mo dheadhail ribh rem ré. Ní fhuarais, gidh meanma shaobh, a ghlac shocair gan taom gcruais, cúis mo thréigthe acht mé id ghar; maith gach cunnradh i bhfad uait! Gach ar léigeas leat dom rún, a ghéag úr an aignidh shéimh, aithnim díot a cheilt ar chách go bráth bráth, 's a cheilt ort féin! Im ghar choidhche, is bím gan fear, a ghnúis díoghainn na ndearc mall, an fear leis nách beitheá réidh ní léigfinn féin ar chéad marg. A stuaigh mhíolla na mbas ngeal, gé léige mo shearc i bhfaill, fuaire id thoil ní thugas fós; mo sgaradh riot gá mó mairg?