Ach cer thinn a fulachtadh tucad er chnes Meic Mhuire tinne leis a dubhachus do bhí uirruidh-si uime
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Confirmed with The Gaelic Journal, Dublin: the Gaelic Union, 1892. Included in Anecdota from Irish MSS., VI: Volume IV, old no. 41, June 1892. Page 134. At the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, the Leabhar Breac manuscript is number 1230, 23 P 16.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2 ; composed by David W. Guion.
- Also set in English, a translation by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) , no title, appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © ; composed by Samuel Barber.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Kuno Meyer) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2
- ENG English (Howard Mumford Jones) , no title, appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright ©
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Word count: 18
Ah! though sore the suffering Put upon the body of Mary's Son, Sorer to Him was the grief That was upon her for His sake.
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Confirmed with Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry, translated by Kuno Meyer, second edition, London: Constable & Co., 1913, page 99.
Text Authorship:
- by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919), no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by David W. Guion (1892 - 1981), "At the cry of the first bird", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], G. Schirmer
Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website: 2019-12-09
Line count: 4
Word count: 25