School: Ráth Séideóg (roll number 8786)

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1. The Poet of Glenswilly

   

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   Stella Byrne Drumbollouge, New Mills, Lifford From my mother The Poetess of Glenswilly Brigid McGinley of Glenswilly who died about the year 1895 was one of a family of ten living in Breenagh about three miles from this school. She wrote many beautiful poems the first of which was published in a paper called "The Donegal Christmas Annual". This paper was published through the efforts of the poetess and her friends. Her brother P. T. McGinley President of the Gaelic League and now a Senator wrote many poems which were published in this paper also. One very beautiful poem which the children in this school have learned for Recitation is the "Hills of Donegal". In it the poetess makes us see the sombre cloud capped summits which appear cold and sad to the eye, alive with goblin and fairy and with memories which hang like a halo over the ancient and heroic land of the O'Donnell and so she makes them dearer to the natives of Donegal than all other places

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Stella Byrne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumbologe, Co. Donegal