"Mná na hÉireann" (English: Women of Ireland) is a poem written by Ulster poet Peadar Ó Doirnín (1704–1796), most famous as a song, and especially set to an air composed by Seán Ó Riada (1931–1971). As a modern song, Mná na hÉireann is usually placed in the category of Irish rebel music ; as an eighteenth-century poem it belongs to the genre (related to the aisling) which imagines Ireland as a generous, beautiful woman suffering the depredations of an English maste… WebbIrish-language singer Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin recorded the poem in her 2011 studio album Songs of the Scribe, featuring both the original text and a translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The poem was read, first in Irish then in Heaney’s translation into English, by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh at the memorial service held for Heaney at the Memorial Church, …
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Webbthat the “aislingí” (aisling poems) became the popular songs of the period. The Irish had a long, austere tradition of transmitting poetic knowledge through formal bardic schools of learning. After these bardic schools were dissolved in the mid-16th through the 17th century, poetry in Ireland began to be Webb31 dec. 2014 · The Poetry and song of Ireland : with the publisher's supplement to the second edition : the whole forming a standard encyclopaedia of Erin's poetry and song; and a biographical portrait of her poets by O'Reilly, … poppy troll music videos for kids
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