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AN GAOḊAL.
Fior-eolaċ mo ḋalta air ġasra nár
ġann féile
Do ṫreasgaraḋ sgata i ḃ-farraḋ
na d-teann-ḃéimion,
'S air gaċ droing dá n-deaċaiḋ tar
calaḋ anall gleusta
Ċum réim a's raċuis i ḃ-flaiṫeas
os ceann Éireann.
Seal ḋuit ag faire tre ġanguid na n-
Gall n éiṫeaċ
Amuiċ ar an ḃ-faiṫċe faoi sgartaiḃ
air ḃeann maol-ċnoic,
Gan árus ċum leaban aċt carraig i
ngleann sléiḃe
Ad' ṡeanóir boċt caiḋte gan fasga
go fann treiṫ-lag.
An Ceangal.
Guiḋim-se Muire ġeal máṫair an aoin
ṁic
Dod' ḋion' a's ċomairc d'éis cráiḋnis
a's daoirse,
A's Iosa do milleaḋ air ḃárr tulaiġ
trínn-ne
Dod' díriuġaḋ tubaist go braṫ in a
rioġaċt leis.
An Buinneán Aoraċ.
Tiubraid Ċiaráin, Ciaran's Well,
the hamlet of Tubrid in the barony of Iffa and
Offa (Uibh Fatha), in the south of co. Tipperary.
Here at the well, embowered in sycamore trees,
that springs from the side of the church-yard
mound St. Declan baptized a youth that afterwards
became the great St. Ciaran. Local tradition still
identifies this spring with the incident. The little
chapel in ruins on the hill top was the parish
church of Dr. Keatinge ; and a contemporary me¬
morial slab over the low door-way bears an inscrip¬
tion in Latin bespeaking the prayers of the chari¬
table wayfarer in behalf of all both clergy and laity
that rest within and particularly the founders, P.
Eugenius Duhy and Mr. Geof. Keatinge. The date
appended is 1644.
Sliaḃ g-Cua, The ancient name of
the present Cnoc-maol-donn mountains
in the co. Waterford. The name still survives but
its application is limited to a much smaller territo¬
ry towards the South East.
Sliaḃ g-Crot, The ancient name of
the Galtee mountains in Tipperary.
I ḃ-fine go n-deaġ-ċró-ḟuil, Dr. Kea¬
tinge had the nobility that belonged to his family
and race. The Keatings were Old English of that
generous Norman blood that mixed so freely with
ours and became the thorough Irish in habit and
feeling that the life and labours of our learned his
can exemplify in a particular case.
Níor ḃ'ísiol a ṁaise, He was ren¬
owned as a preacher. An old priest-registration
return speaks of him as "a great preacher who goes
up and down the Diocese."
Fior-eolaċ, &c. He received a tech¬
nical training in the ancient lore of the shanachies
and was learned in all the old time modes. Evid¬
ence of this is supplied from tradition and is clear¬
ly evinced by the style and matter of his
Foras Feasa air Éirinn.
Seal ḋuit ag faire, &c. Having in¬
curred the personal enmity of the prefect of Mun¬
ster of his day by the upright discharge of his du¬
ties as priest he was forced to fly into the fastness¬
es of the Galtees for safety. While there he coll¬
ected materials and wrote his History. He never
returned, and is supposed to have died at an old-
age a houseless wanderer on the mountain side.
An B. A.
A prayer to be said by a person supposed to be
overlooked, or as they say, a bad eye made of. I
took it down from Mrs Mulhearn of Cloughaneely
co. Donegal.
J. J. Lyons.
Orṫa n-aġaiḋ Droċ-aṁarc.
Orṫa ċuir Mac Dé air eaċ neaċ
Paidir na ḃ feart air a ḋá ġlún,
Sileaḋ fola as a ċneaḋa
A Ṁic gan loċt, is maiṫ do rún.
'Nuair a ċonairc Muire a Mac ḟéin
Air a' ċroiṫ le n-a ḋá súil,
Ṡil sí trí spreasa fola
Agus í fá h-uċt ann Riġ na n-dúl.
A ḟúil údaiġ, a rinne mo lot,
A ḃain díom mo ḋreaċ 's mo ṡnuaḋ,
Guiḋim-se Muire 'gus a Mac
Agus Riġ na ḃ-flaiṫis a toġḃáil uaim.
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We don't want the Irishman to trail his coat a¬
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but we want him to keep aloft such evidence of
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which we publish in another column, and not (me¬
taphorically) stand like the Indian at a cigar store
and permit every passer-by to have a puck at him.
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