Aogán Ó Rathaille

Quotes

• “For the future I cease, Death approaches with little delay,Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed;I’ll follow the heroes far from the light of day,The princes my ancestors followed before Christ died.”
• “That my old bitter heart was pierced in this black doom,That foreign devils have made our land a tomb,That the sun that was Munster's glory has gone downHas made me a beggar before you,Valentine Brown.”

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