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 173
... Limerick were over- agile with the hammer . And to this day when I am close to them I walk with my head averted . Here now is the Limerck hero : THE BLACKSMITH OF LIMERICK He grasped his ponderous hammer , he could not stand it more ...
... Limerick were over- agile with the hammer . And to this day when I am close to them I walk with my head averted . Here now is the Limerck hero : THE BLACKSMITH OF LIMERICK He grasped his ponderous hammer , he could not stand it more ...
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... Limerick from the might of English guns . But here and now is another Limerick hero . He was first introduced to me a long long time ago in the columns of Ireland's Own . His story , as told here , may take up overmuch space in this ...
... Limerick from the might of English guns . But here and now is another Limerick hero . He was first introduced to me a long long time ago in the columns of Ireland's Own . His story , as told here , may take up overmuch space in this ...
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... Limerick songs : ' The Limerick Rake ' . I'm talking now of Sigerson Clifford , not only in himself a composer of poems and ballads , but a great and scholarly authority on the songs sung here and there in Munster for many years . I ...
... Limerick songs : ' The Limerick Rake ' . I'm talking now of Sigerson Clifford , not only in himself a composer of poems and ballads , but a great and scholarly authority on the songs sung here and there in Munster for many years . I ...
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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