Peadar Ó Doirnín
Oxford Companion to Irish Literature:
Top
Peadar Ó Doirnín
Ó Doirnín, Peadar (?1700-1769) poet. Born near Dundalk, he spent most of his life in that area; he is buried in Urney on the Louth-Armagh border. Most of the details about him derive either from folklore or from accounts written by antiquarians in the 19th cent., and are not very trustworthy. He became a schoolmaster at Forkhill, Co. Armagh, having married Rose Toner. According to tradition he was active as a Jacobite Whiteboy and lived a wild life. Personal and somewhat enigmatic, his love-poems combine derived themes with originality in language, metre, and imagery; they include ‘Mná na hÉireann’, and the well-known ‘Úr-Chnoc Chéin Mhic Cáinte’.
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
Peadar Ó Doirnín
Peadar Ó Doirnín, Gaelic-Irish poet, c. 1700-69.
|
Contents
|
Biography
Ó Doirnín is one of the most celebrated of the Ulster poets in the eighteenth century and along with Art Mac Cumhaigh, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta was part of the Airgíalla tradition of poetry and song. They were the northern representatives of the Hidden Ireland of poets and learned scholars whose existence in eighteenth century Munster Daniel Corkery famously wrote about in his 1924 classic.
Ó Doirnín's work is still alive in the tradition of north Leinster and south Ulster, while his authorship of nationally and internationally celebrated songs like Mná na hÉireann is little known. Other songs such as Úrchnoc Chéin mhic Cáinte make classic Gaelic appeals for a return to nature reminiscent of its contemporary Lon Doire an Chairn (a poem which attained new renown in the twentieth century under the title Blackbird of Derrycairn by Austin Clarke). For the sexual inferences of Úrchnoc Chéin mhic Cáinte, Ó Doirnín, the Hedgeschool master, is reputed to have been dismissed from his teaching job.[1]
See also
Poetry Collections
- Peadar Ó Doirnín: Amhráin, Breandán Ó Buachalla 1969
- Peadar Ó Doirnín, Seán de Rís 1969
Footnotes
See also
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Copyright © 1996, 2000, 2003 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Read more
