The Poems of Egan O’Rahilly. Irish Texts Society (1900)
Book ID: 70854
Price: €125.00
Dánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille. The Poems of Egan O’Rahilly, to which are added Miscellaneous Pieces Illustrating their Subjects and Language. Edited & Translated by Rev. Patrick S. Dinnee. London: Published for the Irish Texts Society by David Nutt, 1900. Pp lxii, 304, [14]. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Scattered spotting to text.
The poetical works of Egan O’Rahilly, a Kerry poet whose verse reflects the upheaval in Ireland during the decades following the Williamite Revolution.
The translation is line-for-line and literal, intended to help learners read the original Irish, as no satisfactory dictionary existed at the time.
Notable poems include “Gile na Gile” (Brightness Most Bright), often considered his masterpiece, along with elegies, aislingí (vision poems), and satires.
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