Irish Texts Society Volume 53: Poems on Marcher Lords
Book Details
Published by Irish Texts Society
January 1987
HardbackNumber of pages: 146
This collection of bardic poems, which is found in a manuscript from the Cashel district, reflects the literary taste of a march area of the Butler lordship at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The elegies for local lords, both native and Hiberno-Norman, reveal the extent of the cultural synthesis which had taken place by then, and also present a very valuable insight into the social circumstances of the time. This edition of the poems for the Society was begun by Anne O'Sullivan, who had previously edited one of the poems separately, and, after her death in 1984, completed by Pádraig Ó Riain.
About the authors
Anne O'Sullivan
Pádraig Ó Riain
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