Irish Texts Society Volume 21: Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh
Book Details
Published by Irish Texts Society
February 1920
HardbackNumber of pages: 284
The bardic poems contained in Lambert McKenna's two-volume edition of the Iomarbhágh ostensibly reflect an argument between groups of Irish poets in the early 1600s as to which was superior, the southern half of Ireland or its northern counterpart. However, in his new introduction, published in 1994, Joep Leerssen wrote that it represented more than a final display of bardic erudition and eloquence, 'it was also a unique registration of an ancient literary tradition trying to come to terms with the drastic disintegration of both its social raison d'être and its cultural Weltanschauung'.
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