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Gair nan Clarsach = The Harps' Cry: An Anthology of 17th Century Gaelic Poetry
This is an anthology of Gaelic poetry and song from the 17th century and includes the melodies of songs where known. 43 poems illustrate the full range of verse from that turbulent century - work songs, rowing songs, political songs and songs of clans, anger and grief. This poetry gives readers a last glimpse of the heroic age in Europe which has remained unchanged in Scotland for over 1000 years.
246 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1994
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About the author
Colm Ó Baoill
18 booksColm Ó Baoill is a Gaelic scholar.
Starting in Belfast, where his Professor was Heinrich Wagner (1923 - 1988), he studied Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic in his theses for the MA (1962) and PhD (1966) degrees, and between 1961 and 1965 he collected Scottish material for Vol. IV (1969) of Wagner's Linguistic Atlas. In Aberdeen his interest soon turned to Gaelic verse of the period 1600 - 1730 and several volumes have been published (1972, 1979, 1994, 1995 and 1997), including an anthology with English translations by Meg Bateman (1994).
In the late 70s Breandán Ó Doibhlin, Professor of French at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, who visited the Highlands and became a student of the work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, suggested that a collection of Scottish Gaelic short stories translated into Irish would be of interest in Ireland; this collection, Feoil an Gheimhridh, was published in 1980, reprinted 1996.
About 1980 and after, he co-operated with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, then in the Department of Celtic in Glasgow, towards a major projected anthology of all the extant examples of the 17th-19th-century Irish verse form known as Trí Rainn agus Amhrán: 103 of them were found (one of them in Scottish Gaelic), some during sabbatical terms spent visiting collections of manuscripts both in Britain and in Ireland. Having finally overcome difficulties with four different publishers, they had a collection of the texts published in Belfast in 1996 - but without any of the academic apparatus. The complete work (in Irish) was published as a CD, and on the internet, by Clann Tuirc in 2005 and (with a Scottish Gaelic version) in 2006.
Starting in Belfast, where his Professor was Heinrich Wagner (1923 - 1988), he studied Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic in his theses for the MA (1962) and PhD (1966) degrees, and between 1961 and 1965 he collected Scottish material for Vol. IV (1969) of Wagner's Linguistic Atlas. In Aberdeen his interest soon turned to Gaelic verse of the period 1600 - 1730 and several volumes have been published (1972, 1979, 1994, 1995 and 1997), including an anthology with English translations by Meg Bateman (1994).
In the late 70s Breandán Ó Doibhlin, Professor of French at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, who visited the Highlands and became a student of the work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, suggested that a collection of Scottish Gaelic short stories translated into Irish would be of interest in Ireland; this collection, Feoil an Gheimhridh, was published in 1980, reprinted 1996.
About 1980 and after, he co-operated with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, then in the Department of Celtic in Glasgow, towards a major projected anthology of all the extant examples of the 17th-19th-century Irish verse form known as Trí Rainn agus Amhrán: 103 of them were found (one of them in Scottish Gaelic), some during sabbatical terms spent visiting collections of manuscripts both in Britain and in Ireland. Having finally overcome difficulties with four different publishers, they had a collection of the texts published in Belfast in 1996 - but without any of the academic apparatus. The complete work (in Irish) was published as a CD, and on the internet, by Clann Tuirc in 2005 and (with a Scottish Gaelic version) in 2006.
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