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'Mise Eire'

Fiann · 2009-01-13 20:52:38

“It is fortuitous for us that, no less a man than, Sean O’Riada, entitled his great work with the truism ‘Mise Eire’ , ‘I am Ireland’. The title of P H Pearse’s short poem:- ‘I am Ireland: I am older than the Old Woman of Beare Great my Glory: I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant Great my shame: My own children that sold…

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Fiann

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“It is fortuitous for us that, no less a man than, Sean O’Riada, entitled his great work with the truism
‘Mise Eire’ , ‘I am Ireland’. The title of P H Pearse’s short poem:-

‘I am Ireland:
I am older than the Old Woman of Beare
Great my Glory:
I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant
Great my shame:
My own children that sold their mother
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare’

‘Mise Eire’

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