School: Eaglais

Location:
Burren, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
S. Ó Mongaigh
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  1. XML School: Eaglais
  2. XML Page 047
  3. XML “The Rap at the Door”
  4. XML “Lament for Pat Randall Mac Donnell”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
      2. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pat O Malley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Malley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Burren, Co. Mayo
  2. Lament for Pat Randall Mac Donnell (captain of yeomanry in Chandlery Hall Turlough, killed by Fitzgerald the Fireater in 1777)
    Níor [?] airigheas ceol na h-éanlaith
    Ná an chuac ag seinn bhéarsaí
    Dimthigh Pat Randall uair - scail
    Bhárr an gáirdín pleaísureNá O Droiceadh an túir Mhóir
    Paidir
    Bhfuil tú a chodladh a máthair
    Níos seo aisle a mhic ceard aisle a mháthair
    Beadh tuse sula amálach is beor nim beadh tú
    crocadh ar crann Páis agus rópa croibhe
    (continues on next page)
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