Scoil: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (uimhir rolla 14366)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. To the Old Tongue

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   This poem was composed by Mr Patrick Robinson in the year 1895.
   The poet was a great lover of the Irish Language. It was written into this book in December 1938, from a copy in the possession of Mr Denis Collins of Loughfouder, Knocknagoshel, Co Kerry

   
   When our Nation was known as the Island of Saints,
   (And) Our tongue uncorrupted by greed or malignity,
   Dictated defiance to Normans and Danes
   With a spirit whose grandeur arose from its dignity

   Till we bartered that birthright our Brehons and Bards
   Despised the great jargon that Irishmen stammer
   We discarded the language we got from the Lord
   And to-day we can't jabber intelligent grammar

   Ere Clovis was crowned on the banks of the Seine,
   As monarch of France to establish a realm,
   Ere the Norman, the Teuton, the Saxon or Dane
   Had a school, Irish students commanded the helm

   Then our tongue gave its mandate alike to the foe
   Defending our homes stood our clansmen and warriors
   But our language is Cockney to-day, and we know

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha

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   Gairm bheatha

   Teacher (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

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   Cnoc na gCaiseal, Co. Chiarraí

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Denis Collins

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   Leacht Fuadaire, Co. Chiarraí