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Iomdha éacht do-ní an t-éag mur shaoilim

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de Brún (Pádraig) (ed.): Two eighteenth century laments.
In Clogher record 6, (no. 3, 1968), pp. 618–25.
From MS Franc. A 18 (c. 1710, Co. Louth) whose scribe, Labhrás Ó Cathaláin (Laurence Cahalan), may be the author of the poems; Engl. synopses.
1. Lament for Patrick Taaffe (ob. 1706). — First line: Olc an scéal, mo léan, do scaoileadh (79 lines).
2. Lament for Catherine MacMahon (ob. 1711). — Iomdha éacht do-ní an t-éag mur shaoilim (83 ll.).
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