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GLEANINGS FROM IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
Guidhim Dia 9 do dhoirt a fhuil
Ó sé a mbás bheith n-a mbeathuidh
biodh nach buan a marthan sin
nár marbhthar an sluagh seisir
Seisir.
IX
An t-úcaire adtuaidh do chan so san lomarhháidh
Ná hosglaid Muimhnigh a mbéal
ná habraid me ioná thú
ná labhraid í gcás an bhidh
do bhí mise mí farrú
An t-úcaire Muimhmeach do chan an jreagra so
Leath Eoghain ceart cródha is úire sluagh
ílath-fhód na bhfleadh n-óil nach dubhradh
i gcruas
gan glas-ósda seamróg n-a gcúis do luadh
laibheór-sa d'aimhdheóin na cúige thuaidh
9 an righ MS.
* O Renehan Manuscript 107, 81. The point of the
reference to shamrocks in the second quatrain seems to be that
the use of these herbs as an article of food was only practised by
those who were too penurious or too niggardly to procure better
fare. The custom is mentioned by a great number of English
writers from Campion and Spenser to Sir Henry Piers. The latter
states expressly that " butter, new cheese, and curds and sham-
rocks, are the food of the meaner sort all this season," that is,
the summer season. (Vallancey, Collectanea i, 121.)
Guidhim Dia 9 do dhoirt a fhuil
Ó sé a mbás bheith n-a mbeathuidh
biodh nach buan a marthan sin
nár marbhthar an sluagh seisir
Seisir.
IX
An t-úcaire adtuaidh do chan so san lomarhháidh
Ná hosglaid Muimhnigh a mbéal
ná habraid me ioná thú
ná labhraid í gcás an bhidh
do bhí mise mí farrú
An t-úcaire Muimhmeach do chan an jreagra so
Leath Eoghain ceart cródha is úire sluagh
ílath-fhód na bhfleadh n-óil nach dubhradh
i gcruas
gan glas-ósda seamróg n-a gcúis do luadh
laibheór-sa d'aimhdheóin na cúige thuaidh
9 an righ MS.
* O Renehan Manuscript 107, 81. The point of the
reference to shamrocks in the second quatrain seems to be that
the use of these herbs as an article of food was only practised by
those who were too penurious or too niggardly to procure better
fare. The custom is mentioned by a great number of English
writers from Campion and Spenser to Sir Henry Piers. The latter
states expressly that " butter, new cheese, and curds and sham-
rocks, are the food of the meaner sort all this season," that is,
the summer season. (Vallancey, Collectanea i, 121.)
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| Description | 2nd edition, with additional matter. Irish text and English translation, English preliminaries and notes. |
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| Description | Items from a collection of 170 volumes relating to Gaelic matters. Mainly philological works in the Celtic and some non-Celtic languages. Some books extensively annotated by Angus Matheson, the first Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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