Gaelic Poetry (In Gaelic)

Tha buaidh air an uisge bheatha,
Tha buaidh air 's cha ghabh e cleith;
Tha buaidh air an uisge bheatha,
Dh'òlainn tè is fuar i.

An cuala sibh 's an àite so,
Mu'n Ford a fhuair an Lamanach;
Gu fan i far am fàgar i,
Mur tàirnear i cha ghluais i.

'S e sud an car tha cunnartach,
Ma thàras i air buill' thoirt dhuit;
An làrach far an cuir i thu,
Gu fuirich thu 'nad shuain ann.

Ma ghluaiseas e do do'n bhaile rith,
A steach Black Brook gu'n caillir i,
Cha dèan i cnoc Iain Shalaich dheth
'S cha toir a h-anail suas i.

'S gu'n d'thuirt Dòmhnall Angus ris
An déidh dha chuis a rannsachadh,
Tha 'n uidheam stiùiridh cam oirre,
Mu'n dèan i call, cuir uait i.

Nis crìochnaichidh mi'n dan so dhuibh
An dùil gu'n dèan sibh fabhar leam:
Na inssibh e do'n Lamanach,
Mur fàs e ann an gruaim rium.

Tha mi fo chùram a dhiu ro eileadh
Tha mi fo chùram 's fo mhoran tursa.
'S mo cheist air cùirteir a' bhrollaich ghlè-ghil.
Tha mi fo chùram a dhiu ro eileadh.

Tha mi fo ghruaimean
'S gur fhad o'n uair sin
Mo ghaol a' bhuachaill
'S cha chual e fhèin e.

Ma gheibh mi airgiod
A bheir air falbh mi,
Gu lean mi Tormod
'S cha dealaichinn fhèin ris.

Mo cheist an cìobair
Tha'n cois na frìthe
'S mo chridhe 'g innse
Nach dean e feum dhomh.

Nach mi bha gòrach
An duil ri pòsadh
Gun stoc gun stòras
Gun or gun Bheurla.

'S Gann Gun Dìrich Mi Chaoidh

Fhuair mi litir a Dùn Eideann 'g ràdh
Nach feud mi dhol do 'n mhonadh.

'S tric a mharbh mi fiadh ard bheann
Air na glinn a b'àille culaidh.

Fàgaidh mi a nis an tir seo, chan fhaigh
M'inntinn sìth innt' tuilleadh.

Bheir mi ruaig gu còrs' nan Innsean
Feuch an dean mi fhìn am buinnig.

'S í Bláth geal Na Sméar í

Gaidhlig

• Amhrán Gaelach
• An Leabharlann Leictreonach
• Bunléitheoireacht Ghalach
• Chengey-ny-Mayrey Vannin
• Fàilte gu Sabhal Mór Ostaig
• Freumh nan Ceilteach
• Leasain Na Ghàidhlig
• Nuadh Bunléitheoireacht Ghalach
• Poetry by Seamus Heaney
• Sean Bhunléitheoireacht Ghalach

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  Gaelic Poetry (In English)

  I Am Full of Care

  Concerned am I a dhiu ro eileadh
  Concerned am I, and very sorrowful
  My desire being the fair-breasted one Concerned am I a dhiu ro eileadh

  Downcast am I
  And long since about my love
  Of the shepherd
  And he not knowing of it.

  If I come into money
  Which will enable me to get away
  I shall follow Norman
  And never part with him.

  My love is the shepherd
  Close to the deer-forest
  And my heart telling me that
  It will little avail me.

  How silly I was
  To think of marriage
  Without stock or possessions
  Without gold or English.

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  I Will Climb No More

  I will climb no more
  To the wilds of the moorlands;
  I will climb no more.

  I received a letter from Edinburgh
  Saying I must not go to the moorland.

  Often I killed the deer in the high mountains,
  In the glens with thickest cover.

  I'll be leaving this country now;
  I can no longer find peace here.

  I'll be leaving for the Indies
  To try to make myself a fortune.

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  She's the Blackberry-Flower

  She's the blackberry-flower,
  the fine raspberry-flower,
  she's the plant of best breeding
  your eyes could behold;
  she's my darling and dear,
  my fresh apple-tree flower,
  she is Summer in the cold
  between Christmas and Easter.

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  "Behold the Sídh before your eyes,
  So clearly a royal mansion,
  Which was built by the firm Dagda,
  Wonder, court, admirable hill."
  MacNia, Book of Ballymote.

  " Adieu, sweet Angus, Maeve and Fand,
  Ye plumed yet skinny shee,
  That poets played with hand in hand
  To learn their ecstasy."
  J.M. Synge: The Passing of the Shee.

  "I went out to the hazel wood,
  Because a fire was in my head,
  And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
  And hooked a berry to a thread;
  And when white moths were on the wing,
  And moth-like stars were flickering out,
  I dropped the berry in a stream
  And caught a little silver trout.

  When I had laid it on the floor
  I went to blow the fire aflame,
  But something rustled on the floor,
  And some one called me by my name.
  It had become a glimmering girl
  With apple blossom in her hair
  Who called me by my name and ran
  And faded through the brightening air.

  Though I am old with wandering
  Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
  I will find out where she has gone,
  And kiss her lips and take her hands;
  And walk among long dappled grass,
  And pluck till time and times are done
  The silver apples of the moon,
  The golden apples of the sun.
  W.B. Yeats. The Song of Wandering Aengus.

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  Modern Irish Poetry:
  "People of the People"

  Hunger Poems

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  Irish Famine

  Gruel Cauldron
  Irish Famine 1845-1848
  Passing of the Gael
  Skibbereen
  Victory in the Time of Famine

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  "Oh father dear, I oft-times hear you speak of Erin's isle
  Her lofty hills, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
  They say she is a lovely land wherein a saint might dwell
  So why did you abandon her, the reason to me tell."

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