AN GAODHAL.
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Cá nós do thaithnion leis cleachta do'n t-sórt so,
Chraobh-sgaoíle fairsing 'measg carad a's cómharsan?
Ó tá chó gasta ag tabhairt deagh-chómhairle,
Tógach cneasda an mhéid feasda do gheobha sé.
Budh fhada mo fhoighidhine le bloighire béiceach,
A tabhairt droch-adhaigh do chaint Thadhaig-Ghaodhalaigh,
An scoláirthe budh chliste, budh chinte a's budh léighionta,
Gan tlás 'na thuigsint ar uire-cheacht éigis.
Do bhodhar sin a lochtúghadh sean-sgríbhin na mílthe bárd,
An leitir Rómhánach do mhol sé go groídhe 's go hárd,
Tá a dhóchain di fághaltha aige, measaim, achd ní bh-fuil sé fós
Ró shocair ná sásta síochánta na sochtmo 'na ghlór.
Ní thuigean Ó'Gráda milleán air a mhúine,
D'fhág 'na dhallachán é gan grásta na ciúine,
Achd omorca glórtha gan eólghas ná éifeacht,
Do ghlacan go leór 'na n-árd cómhartha air léighion-tacht
An Ceangal.
Tá mo pheann mar lann a ngéire,
Agus m' inithchinn fós gan feógh ná traocha;
Mo chroídhe air lasa le geanas do'n Ghaodhailge,
Agus tabhair fé n-deara gur feara dhuit staona.
Anois má's math leat gadh dá thréine
Do sgaoíle am choinne le fuineamh a's déine,
Geallaim thar n'ais díol-fiach na Féine, —
Buille air bhuille a's tuille mar éiric
— Míochál Callanánach Ó'Séaghdha.
NOTES.
Sgéidh, to pour out, cause to flow.
Tarác, or tarang, to draw.
Cáinte, dispraised.
Agair Emmét-aig, Emmet's Speech.
Créim, hurt, injury.
Racaire, a bluffer who praised or dis¬
praised falsely, an advocate true or
[false.
Ceachtar, either.
Speachaire, a kicker
Cora-mhíola, mosquito.
Geón, a din, a shout.
Cothrom, even, balance.
Tuaiplis, blunder
Tocar-ais, wind around, turn about
Taisgétha, treasured, stored up.
Coimhidhtheach, strange, foreign, unnatural
Cleachda, customs, habits, ways.
Bloighire, a blarer, bawler.
Uire-cheacht éigis, ancient Irish grammar
Uagh, the old away or from Anglo-
Saxon, aweg, from Celtic uaig, away
from; the English changed the g to
y, as we do by aspiration; thus,
came away.
[ * And behold the intelligence of the
Irishmen who abet him in his onslaught
on all our Irish scholars, without one
exception! McHale, Bourke, O'Dono¬
van, O Curry, Fleming etc. and extol
in their stead the learner of yesterday
or obscure non-Irishmen, thus seeking
to lower the literary prestige which the
histories of the nations accord us. — Ed]
