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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... John Synge - ' that meditative man , John Synge ' ; Cumeenole to Ballyferriter , they've never heard of him . ' I wonder , if I went enquiring through the stone - piled Aran Islands , round Glenmalure or Glenmacnass , Kippure or Lough ...
... John Synge - ' that meditative man , John Synge ' ; Cumeenole to Ballyferriter , they've never heard of him . ' I wonder , if I went enquiring through the stone - piled Aran Islands , round Glenmalure or Glenmacnass , Kippure or Lough ...
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... John Garvey to his Reverence he made this quick reply : ' Oh , Father dear , at seven o'clock each lass to her abode Must go without a sweetheart from the Deck beside the Road . ' ' Now John , act to your promise and you'll have my ...
... John Garvey to his Reverence he made this quick reply : ' Oh , Father dear , at seven o'clock each lass to her abode Must go without a sweetheart from the Deck beside the Road . ' ' Now John , act to your promise and you'll have my ...
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... John Montague or Seamus Heaney if you go about talking prose ? Anybody could do that . I could do it myself . And another Bard , by the name of Scott , wrote in praise of John McEnaney , the Bard of Callenberg : From Clogherhead to ...
... John Montague or Seamus Heaney if you go about talking prose ? Anybody could do that . I could do it myself . And another Bard , by the name of Scott , wrote in praise of John McEnaney , the Bard of Callenberg : From Clogherhead to ...
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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