School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 358
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- (continued from previous page)poem, “The Virgin Mary’s Bank,” was inspired by a tradition connected with the island. “Gougane Barra” is the most popular of his poems in the south of Ireland.
Samuel Lover, in speaking of the poet’s love for his native land says: “Callanan gives that sentiment with a graphic detail, for which his writings are remarkable, and the fondness with which he particularises the ‘whereabouts’ shows how deeply rooted were his local attachments. Pot only are hill and glen, Niall and river distinctly noted, but their varied aspects under the different circumstances whether they are shrouded in mist or bathed in the glow of sunset or pale gleam of moonlight. Even the voice of the wind, or, to use his own words, the ‘wild minstrel’ of the dying trees had a loving echo in the heart(continues on next page)
