The Book of Irish Poetry, part I

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Translated by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

Edited and largely translated into English by Alfred Perceval Graves, this book contains a remarkably large collection of Irish poetry. This is first part of the book. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Dedication Etext Ellies
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Play 02 Introduction Etext Ellies
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Play 03 Ode by Andrew O'Shaughnessy Etext elizabethcanright
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Play 04 The Scribe Etext ChadH94
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Play 05 The Song of Amorgen by Amorgen, a pre-historic Bard Etext Sonia
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Play 06 First Winter-Song Etext Stefan Von Blon
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Play 07 King and Hermit translated by Professor Kuno Meyer Etext Colleen McMahon
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Play 08 St. Columba in Iona Etext Colleen McMahon
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Play 09 The Irish Wolf-Hound by Denis Florence McCarthy Etext Ellies
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Play 10 The Rock of Cashel by Sir Aubrey De Vere Etext Ellies
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Play 11 Glengarriff by Sir Aubrey De Vere Etext Ellies
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Play 12 Sibera by James Clarence Mangan Etext Ellies
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Play 13 A Sigh for Knockmany by William Carleton Etext Ellies
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Play 14 Sonnet by Edward Dowden Etext Ellies
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Play 15 Four Ducks on a Pound by William Allingham Etext Stefan Von Blon
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Play 16 Foam Flakes by Standish O'Grady Etext Ellies
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Play 17 From Shannon to Sea by E. G. A. Holmes Etext Ellies
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Play 18 Eternal Vigil by E. G. A. Holmes Etext Ellies
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Play 19 Birds by Moira O'Neill Etext Ellies
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Play 20 Sheeps and Lambs by Katharine Tynan Hinkson Etext Ellies
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Play 21 April in Ireland by Nora Hopper Etext Ellies
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Play 22 Glorny's Weir by Winifred M. Letts Etext Ellies
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Play 23 The Nine Green Glens by John Stevenson Etext Ellies
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Play 24 Lough Bray, I by Rose Kavanagh Etext Ellies
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Play 25 Lough Bray, II Standish O'Grady Etext Ellies
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Play 26 An Awakening by Alice Furlong Etext Sonia
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Play 27 The Little Waves of Breffny by Eva Gore-Booth Etext Sonia
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Play 28 On Great Sugarloaf by George A. Greene Etext Sonia
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Play 29 A June Day by John Todhunter Etext Sonia
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Play 30 The Swimmer by Roden Noel Etext Ellies
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Play 31 Spring, the Travelling Man by Winifred M. Letts Etext Ellies
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Play 32 A Fine Day on Lough Swilly by William Alexander Etext Ellies
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Play 33 Frost-morning by William Alexander Etext Ellies
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Play 34 The Wind from the West by Ella Young Etext Ellies
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Play 35 To the Mountain Ben Bulben by Moireen Fox Etext Sonia
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Play 36 Anach by Darrell Figgis Etext Sonia
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Play 37 The Fairies' Lullaby by Eleanor Hull Etext Sonia
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Play 38 The Fairy Host Etext Sonia
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Play 39 The Song of the Fairies by A. H. Leary Etext Sonia
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Play 40 Sea-Maiden's Vengeance by George Sigerson Etext Ellies
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Play 41 Song of Maelduin by Thomas William Rolleston Etext Ellies
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Play 42 The Island of Sleep by William Butler Yeats Etext Ellies
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Play 43 On the Waters of Moyle by George Sigerson Etext Ellies
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Play 44 The Return of the Children of Lir by George Sigerson Etext Ellies
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Play 45 The Sea God's Address to Bran Etext Ellies
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Play 46 The Spear of Keltar by W. M. Hennessy Etext Ellies
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Play 47 The Legend of Fergus Leideson by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext Ellies
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Play 48 Deirdre Dancing by Herbert Trench Etext Ellies
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Play 49 The Noble Lay of Aillinn by Stopford A. Brooke Etext Ellies
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Play 50 The Love-Talker by Ethna Carbery Etext Ellies
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Play 51 To the Leanan Sidhe by Thomas Boyd Etext Ellies
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Play 52 The King's Son by Thomas Boyd Etext Ellies
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Play 53 Little Sister Etext Ellies
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Play 54 The Fairy Thorn by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 55 On All Souls' Night by Dora Sigerson Etext Sonia
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Play 56 The Ship from Tirnanoge by Emily Hickey Etext Anita Sloma-Martinez
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Play 57 The Fairies' Passage by James Clarence Mangan Etext Sonia
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Play 58 The Fairy Fiddler by Nora Hopper Etext Sonia
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Play 59 The Fairies by William Allingham Etext Sonia
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Play 60 Hy-Brasail by Gerald Griffin Etext Sonia
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Play 61 The Heather Glen by George by Sigerson Etext Sonia
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Play 62 The Wind Among the Reeds by Nora Hopper Etext Sonia
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Play 63 The Changeling by Ruth Duffin Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 64 The Faery Lover by Moireen Fox Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 65 The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker by William Allingham Etext Anita Sloma-Martinez
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Play 66 Fairy Song by Elinor Sweetman Etext Sonia
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Play 67 The Others by Seumas O'Sullivan Etext Sonia
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Play 68 What is Love? Etext ChadH94
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Play 69 The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare Etext Sonia
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Play 70 She by Eleanor Hull Etext Stefan Von Blon
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Play 71 Credhe's Lament for Cail Etext Sonia
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Play 72 Lament of Fand at Parting from Cuchulain Etext Sonia
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Play 73 Were You on the Mountain? by Douglas Hyde Etext Stefan D'Souza
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Play 74 Pulse of My Heart by Charlotte Brooke Etext Blake Johnson
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Play 75 Two Songs from the Irish, I by Thomas MacDonagh Etext locturne
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Play 76 Two Songs from the Irish, II by Thomas MacDonagh Etext locturne
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Play 77 Pearl of the White Breast by George Petrie Etext Sonia
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Play 78 The Outlaw of Loch Lene by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan Etext Sonia
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Play 79 Cean Dubh Deelish by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext Sonia
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Play 80 The Flower of Nut-brown Maids by Eleanor Hull Etext Ellies
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Play 81 Pastheen Finn by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext Ellies
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Play 82 She Is My Love Etext Ellies
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Play 83 Happy 'tis Thou Blind, for Thee by Douglas Hyde Etext Ellies
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Play 84 The Coolun by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext Ellies
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Play 85 Irish Love-Song by Katharine Tynan Hinkson Etext Ellies
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Play 86 Cashel of Munster by Edward Walsh Etext Ellies
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Play 87 Molly Asthore by George Ogle Etext Ellies
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Play 88 Remembrance by Emily Brontë Etext Nemo
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Play 89 Lament of the Irish Maiden by Denny Lane Etext Sonia
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Play 90 The Desmond by Thomas Moore Etext Kudrna
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Play 91 Love Song by George Darley Etext ChadH94
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Play 92 If I had thought thou couldst have died by Charles Wolfe Etext Kristine Bekere
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Play 93 A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 94 Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller Etext elizabethcanright
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Play 95 Kathleen O'More by George Nugent Reynolds Etext elizabethcanright
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Play 96 The Boatman of Kinsale by Thomas Davis Etext elizabethcanright
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Play 97 Minnie by Thomas Caulfield Etext Kudrna
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Play 98 Song I by Aubrey De Vere Etext Stefan D'Souza
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Play 99 Song II by Aubrey De Vere Etext Stefan D'Souza
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Play 100 An Ancient Tale by John O'Hagan Etext Stefan D'Souza
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Play 101 Donal Kenny by John Keegan Casey Etext Ellies
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Play 102 The Drynan Dhun by Robert Dwyer Joyce Etext Ellies
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Play 103 The Wild Geese by Rosa Mulholland Etext Ellies
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Play 104 Outside by Frances Wynne Etext ChadH94
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Play 105 To an Isle in the Water by William Butler Yeats Etext Stefan Von Blon
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Play 106 An Old Song Resung by William Butler Yeats Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 107 Killary by Herbert Trench Etext Ellies
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Play 108 The Wood Pigeon by Katharine Tynan Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 109 Forgiveness by A.E. Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 110 Song by Arthur O'Shaughnessy Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 111 Nature and Love by Stopford A. Brooke Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 112 The Little Flutes by Mrs. Denis O'Sullivan Etext Ellies
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Play 113 The Penalty of Love by Sidney Royse Lysaght Etext pattymarie
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Play 114 To Morfydd by Lionel Johnson Etext Ellies
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Play 115 The Sedges by Seumas O'Sullivan Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 116 Can Doov Deelish by Dora Sigerson Etext Sonia
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Play 117 The Betrayal by Alice Furlong Etext Anita Sloma-Martinez
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Play 118 Song by Eleanor Alexander Etext Stefan Von Blon
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Play 119 A Silent Mouth by Cathal O'Bryne Etext Sonia
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Play 120 His Home and His Own Country by Emily Hickey Etext ChadH94
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Play 121 Bitter Serenade by Herbert Trench Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 122 The Wings of Love by James H. Cousins Etext Ellies
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Play 123 Little Mary Cassidy by Francis A. Fahy Etext ChadH94
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Play 124 Molleen Oge Etext Ellies
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Play 125 The Yin Wee Luik by G. F. Savage-Armstrong Etext Ellies
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Play 126 The Shawlie by G. F. Savage-Armstrong Etext Ellies
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Play 127 The Wee Lassie's First Luve by G. F. Savage-Armstrong Etext Ellies
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Play 128 Cuttin' Rushes by Moira O'Neill Etext ChadH94
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Play 129 Little Child, I Call Thee by Douglas Hyde Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 130 Eileen Aroon by Gerald Griffin Etext ChadH94
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Play 131 Song by Thomas MacDonagh Etext Ellies
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Play 132 Now by Eleanor Alexander Etext pattymarie
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Play 133 Amor Fons Amoris by Edmond G. A. Holmes Etext Ellies
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Play 134 Ancient Irish Rann Etext James White
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Play 135 Cuchulain's Wooing by Eleanor R. Cox Etext James White
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Play 136 Leagh's Summons to Chchulain Etext James White
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Play 137 Where is the Sweetest Music? by George Sigerson Etext Ellies
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Play 138 The Giant Walker by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext ChadH94
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Play 139 The Washer of the Ford by Sir Samuel Ferguson Etext ChadH94
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Play 140 A Dirge for King Niall of the Nine Hostages Etext Haridev Dadhich
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Play 141 The Song of the Sword of Carroll Etext Ellies
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Play 142 King Ailill's Death by Whitley Stokes Etext Ellies
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Play 143 Rebel Mother's Lullaby by Shane Leslie Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 144 O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire by James Clarence Mangan Etext Ellies
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Play 145 A Lament for the Red Earl by Richard Mahony Etext Larry Wilson
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Play 146 Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill by Thomas Davis Etext Ellies
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Play 147 The Maiden City by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna Etext Ellies
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Play 148 The Battle of the Boyne Etext Ed
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Play 149 A Ballad of Sarsfield by Aubrey De Vere Etext locturne
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Play 150 A Ballad of Athlone (2nd Siege) by Aubrey De Vere Etext locturne
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Play 151 After the Battle (of Aughrim) by Aubrey De Vere Etext locturne
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Play 152 A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield by James Clarence Mangan Etext ChadH94
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Play 153 Fontenoy, 1745, I by Emily Lawless Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 154 Fontenoy, 1745, II by Emily Lawless Etext rumpledpoetry
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Play 155 Clare's Dragoons by Thomas Davis Etext Foon
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Play 156 Cremona by Sir A. Conan Doyle Etext Foon
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Play 157 The Irish Colonel by Sir A. Conan Doyle Etext Foon
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Play 158 Oh! The Sight Entrancing by Thomas Moore Etext Foon
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Play 159 The Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe Etext Foon
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Play 160 Ways of War by Lionel Johnson Etext Foon
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Play 161 The Sword by Michael Joseph Barry Etext Foon
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Play 162 A Soldier's Wake by Timothy Daniel Sullivan Etext Foon
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Play 163 A Song of Defeat by Stephen Gwynn Etext Foon
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