And as I Rode by Granard MoatCombining the rigour of an anthologist with the informal charm of a legendary raconteur, Benedict Kiely leads us on a delightful ramble around Ireland through song and verse. Starting in 'Sweet Omagh Town', we travel down the lanes and highways of thirty-two counties with help from the great poets of Ireland and from the traditional songs of nature, love and rebellion - 'The Yellow Bittern', 'Ringleted Youth of My Love', 'The Bold Fenian Men' and many others. And as I Rode by Granard Moat is much more than a collection of poems and ballads: it is at once the literary evocation of an island and an intimate, highly personal chronicle. |
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Page 80
... Irish to the Anglo - Irish , As the killer is close one moment To the man he kills , Or as the moment itself Is close to the next moment . She is not an Irish town And she is not English , Historic with guns and vermin And the cold ...
... Irish to the Anglo - Irish , As the killer is close one moment To the man he kills , Or as the moment itself Is close to the next moment . She is not an Irish town And she is not English , Historic with guns and vermin And the cold ...
Page 147
... Irish Literature is one of the most popular songs of the peasantry of the counties of Mayo and Galway , and is evidently a composition of the seventeenth century . The original Irish , which is the composition of one Thomas Lavelle ...
... Irish Literature is one of the most popular songs of the peasantry of the counties of Mayo and Galway , and is evidently a composition of the seventeenth century . The original Irish , which is the composition of one Thomas Lavelle ...
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... Irish land , Irish men , Irish mirth , Irish manners - From the mansion and cot let the slogan go forth . Sons of old Ireland now , Love you our sireland now ? Come from the kirk , or the chapel or glen ; Down with the faction old ...
... Irish land , Irish men , Irish mirth , Irish manners - From the mansion and cot let the slogan go forth . Sons of old Ireland now , Love you our sireland now ? Come from the kirk , or the chapel or glen ; Down with the faction old ...
Contents
Contents | 1 |
The Green Flowery Banks Anon 7 The Ballad of Douglas Bridge | 14 |
Omagh Town Anon 28 The Treacherous Waves of Loughmuck | 31 |
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