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AN GAODHAL.
Fior-eolach mo dhalta air ghasra nár
ghann féile
Do threasgaradh sgata i bh-farradh
na d-teann-bhéimion,
'S air gach droing dá n-deachaidh tar
caladh anall gleusta
Chum réim a's rachuis i bh-flaitheas
os ceann Éireann.
Seal dhuit ag faire tre ghanguid na n-
Gall n éitheach
Amuich ar an bh-faithche faoi sgartaibh
air bheann maol-chnoic,
Gan árus chum leaban acht carraig i
ngleann sléibhe
Ad' sheanóir bocht caidhte gan fasga
go fann treith-lag.
An Ceangal.
Guidhim-se Muire gheal máthair an aoin
mhic
Dod' dhion' a's chomairc d'éis cráidhnis
a's daoirse,
A's Iosa do milleadh air bhárr tulaigh
trínn-ne
Dod' díriughadh tubaist go brath in a
rioghacht leis.
An Buinneán Aorach.
Tiubraid Chiaráin, 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.
Sliabh 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.
Sliabh g-Crot, The ancient name of
the Galtee mountains in Tipperary.
I bh-fine go n-deagh-chró-fhuil, 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 bh'ísiol a mhaise, 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-eolach, &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 dhuit 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.
Ortha n-aghaidh Droch-amharc.
Ortha chuir Mac Dé air each neach
Paidir na bh feart air a dhá ghlún,
Sileadh fola as a chneadha
A Mhic gan locht, is maith do rún.
'Nuair a chonairc Muire a Mac fhéin
Air a' chroith le n-a dhá súil,
Shil sí trí spreasa fola
Agus í fá h-ucht ann Righ na n-dúl.
A fhúil údaigh, a rinne mo lot,
A bhain díom mo dhreach 's mo shnuadh,
Guidhim-se Muire 'gus a Mac
Agus Righ na bh-flaithis a toghbháil uaim.
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all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy
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TWENTY-FIVE CENTS a BOTTLE.
We don't want the Irishman to trail his coat a¬
long the streets and shout, “Who'll tread on it,"
but we want him to keep aloft such evidence of
his social standing as is contained in the extracts
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.
MAGAZINES
DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE, Devoted to the Irish
Race at Home and Abroad. — Address,
Patrick Donohue, Boston, Mass.
