Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the IrishOne winter afternoon as I sat by the fire...
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Author: Gregory, Lady,1852-1932
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Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

$9.99

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

$9.99
Author: Gregory, Lady,1852-1932
Format: eBook
Language: English

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish

One winter afternoon as I sat by the fire in a ward of Gort Workhouse, I listened to two old women arguing about the merits of two rival poets they had seen and heard in their childhood. One old woman, who was from Kilchreest, said: 'Raftery hadn't a stim of sight; and he travelled the whole nation; and he was the best poet that ever was, and the best fiddler. It was always at my father's house, opposite the big tree, that he used to stop when he was in Kilchreest. I often saw him; but I didn't take much notice of him then, being a child; it was after that I used to hear so much about him. Though he was blind, he could serve himself with his knife and fork as well as any man with his sight. I remember the way he used to cut the meatacross, like this. Callinan was nothing to him.' The other old woman, who was from Craughwell, said: 'Callinan was a great deal better than him; and he could make songs in English as well as in[Pg 2] Irish; Raftery would run from where Callinan was. And he was a nice respectable man, too, with cows and sheep, and a kind man. He would never put anything that wasn't nice into a poem, and he would never run anyone down; but if you were the worst in the world, he'd make you the best in it; and when his wife lost her beetle, he made a song of fifteen verses about it.' ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 18070
Author: Gregory, Lady
Release Date: Mar 29, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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