Duanaire Dháibhidh Uí Bhruadair – The Poems of David Ó Bruadair Part III

Description

containing poems from the year 1682 till the poet’s death in 1698
John C. MacErlean (foilsithe den chéad uair / first published 1917)

xvi + 276 pp. ISBN 1 870 16618 3

These three volumes, foilsithe den chéad uair / first published by the Society between 1910 and 1917, and edited by John C. MacErlean, still form the most comprehensive edition of the works of this major late seventeenth-century poet. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature has this to say of Ó Bruadair: ‘Along with the poetry of Pádraigín Haicéad and the prose text Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis, his verse registers the chaos that engulfed Gaelic Ireland in the seventeenth century, recording its emotional impact on a highly charged sensibility’.