Scoil: Killybrone (uimhir rolla 1798)

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1. The Truagh Welcome

   

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   When Red Hugh O'Donnell escaped from Dublin Castle, and made his way to the North, McKenna sent him a spirited Gaelic welcome, of which the following is a free translation:-

   "Shall the son of O'Donnell be cheerless and cold,
   While McKenna's wide hearth hath a faggot to spare;
   While O'Donnell is poor shall McKenna have gold,
   Or be clothed while a limb of O'Donnell is bare.

   While sickness and hunger thy sinews assail,
   Shall McKenna, unmoved, quaff his medder of mead;
   On a haunch of deer shall McKenna regale,
   While a chief of Tir-connell is fainting for food.

   No, enter my dwelling, my feast thou shalt share,
   On my pillow of rushes thy head shall recline,
   And bold is the heart and the hand that shall dare,
   To harm but one hair of a ringlet of thine.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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