...this one […] has a metre more reminiscent of English lyric verse of the period than of any indigenous Irish forms [& frankly is a bit of doggerel] but captures something of the change in the language that was underway in that tumultuous period. & it features star-crossed lovers, like any good trad poem ;-)
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The Irish Poems: J. J. Callanan
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