The original poems in this collection give voice to familiar female
figures from Irish mythology, Irish folk history and folklore. The
Gaelic tradition is highly sympathetic to its women protagonists.
It has plenty of them and they have plenty to say for themselves,
not all of it genteel. This series of poems provides a continuum
from the ancient tales of the Tuatha de Danaan and the Red Branch
up to an instance of politicised defence of folklore at the cusp of
the second millennium. It is followed by a translation of the
Lament for Arthur O'Leary composed, as was the custom, over the
course of the laying out of his body and his funeral, by his widow
Eibhlin Dhubh Ni Chonaill (c.1743-?) in Co. Cork in 1773. Eibhlin
is one of the great poetic voices of the Gaelic tradition and the
Lament one of its finest poems.
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