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Dánta na hÉireann  (poems composed in Irish)

Posted by K E Dennis
on:    21 November 1999

Comhfhad do théid teas is fuacht
Gan ainm
An Duanaire 1600 - 1900 (Poems of the Dispossessed)
edited by Sean Ó Tuama
Dublin: The Dolmen Press / Bord na Gaeilge, 1981
  Hate Goes Deep as Cold - translation  by Thomas Kinsella

Comhfhad do théid teas is fuacht,
      comhfhad do théid fuacht is grá;
téid an t-éad go smior,
      is fanann ansin go brách.

Hate Goes Deep as Cold
trans., Thomas Kinsella

Hate goes deep as cold,
      hate goes deep as love.
But envy strikes to the marrow
      And sticks there forever.


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Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Dánta na hÉireann  (poems composed in Irish)

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