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   “The most famous of all the poets in the district was a man named Pádruig de Faoithe (Patrick White).”

   

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   be still alive (He did not tell me who they were). Padraig's worst failing was in getting into trouble with the female sex. He so far got himself that the priest had to banish him from the parish. He went to some place in Tipperary and was not long there when he fell into his old ways again. One Sunday the priest there denounced him at the altar and asked him to leave the parish. Padraig who was in the church stood up to go but before going he spoke to the priest in the following terms. De dheasgadh ban a tháinig peacadh an t-sinnsir (?) De dheasgadh ban a leagadh Cathair na Tréithe De dheasgadh ban a thánag-sa go dte sibh Is de dheasgadh ban atá sibh anois am dhibirt His poem "Na Prátaí Dubha" is a story about himself when he was short of potatoes. He travelled to a place called Inchiquin

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   James Cashman

   Gender

   Male