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<title type="main">Marbhna Oiliféir Grás.</title><author><persName>mac Uaitéir Breathnaigh, Seán</persName></author><editor><name type="main">Mac Néill, Eoin</name></editor><respStmt>
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		 <note type="N">IG08-10434</note>
		 <note type="L">149</note>
		 <note type="B">1898</note>
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		 <note><p>Description of how and why changes were made</p></note>
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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>Eanáir, 1898</date><idno>IG08-10434</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="149"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>Marbhna oilféir grás.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>1.</span>
<lb n="4"/><span>Tá ceó dubhach ar gach sliabh,</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>Ceó nach dtáinig roimhe riamh;</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>Tá ciúineas duairc i n-am nóin</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>Acht amháin trom-ghuth an bhróin.</span></p>
<lb n="8"/>
<lb n="9"/><p><span>2.</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>Tá cling na marbh leis an ngaoith,</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>Monuar! is teachta bróin dúinn í!</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Tá an fiach dubh le glór garbh</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>Ag fógra uaire an duine mhairbh.</span></p>
<lb n="14"/>
<lb n="15"/><p><span>3.</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>An duit, a uasail óig mo chroidhe!</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>Do sgread go dubhach an bhean sidhe?</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>I meadhón chiúin uaigneach oidhche</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>Is cumhach do bhí sí ag éagcaoineadh.</span></p>
<lb n="20"/>
<lb n="21"/><p><span>4.</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>Do fhreagair í gach múr is balla</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>Go dubhach duairc le mac alla;</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>Níor ghlaoidh coileach mar ba ghnáth,</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>'S níor fhógair dúinn am ná tráth.</span></p>
<lb n="26"/>
<lb n="27"/><p><span>5. </span>
<lb n="28"/><span>Uch! a 'Liféir óig mo chroidhe!</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>Is é do bhás ata sí' chaoi,</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>Is é do-bheir an lá i n-oidhche,</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>Is é do-bheir an chumha ar dhaoinibh!</span></p>
<lb n="32"/>
<lb n="33"/><p><span>6.</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>Ní'l againn anois, mo bhrón!</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>I n-áit an tsaoi acht caoi is deóir;</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>Sileadh deór is guth is caoi</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>Feasda dhúinn, is briseadh croidhe.</span></p>
<lb n="38"/>
<lb n="39"/><p><span>7.</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>Uch, a bháis, do leag tú choidhche</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>Bláth is sgéimh ár ngéige is aoirde;</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>Monuar! níor shásamh ar do bhuaidh</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>Gan ceap ár ndaoine dhul san uaigh.</span></p>
<lb n="44"/>
<lb n="45"/><p><span>8.</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>I spéirling lann ba teann a lámh</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>Ag cosaint ceirt a ghaoil sa dhámh,</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>Faoi mheirge a athar uasail fein</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>Is Urmhumhan fuair clú i gcéin.</span></p>
<lb n="50"/>
<lb n="51"/><p><span>9.</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>Ní bhíodh Baile na Cúirte ar aon chor</span>
<lb n="53"/><span>Faoi cheó bhrón nár bh'fhéidir réiteach;</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>A shealbhthóir díleas 'sa chroidhe céasda</span>
<lb n="55"/><span>Tré bhás an óigh-fhir na mhór i dtréithibh.</span></p>
<lb n="56"/>
<lb n="57"/><p><span>10.</span>
<lb n="58"/><span>Oighre ceart 'ainme, a ghradaim, 's a</span>
<lb n="59"/><span>réime,</span>
<lb n="60"/><span>Is oighre a stáite in gach árd d'Éirinn;</span>
<lb n="61"/><span>Mar chrann na darach budh mhaiseach</span>
<lb n="62"/><span>'fhéachain,</span>
<lb n="63"/><span>Do gheall go leathfadh go leathan a </span>
<lb n="64"/><span>ghéaga.</span>
<lb n="65"/></p>
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<pb n="150"/>
<div><lb n="66"/><p><span>11.</span>
<lb n="67"/><span>Ní mar so do bhí i ndán do'n tséimh-fhear,</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>Acht dul san uaigh go huaigneach i n'</span>
<lb n="69"/><span>aonar;</span>
<lb n="70"/><span>Uch! is creach fhada é le n-a ló!</span>
<lb n="71"/><span>Is brón croidhe d'a chéile go deóidh!</span></p>
<lb n="72"/>
<lb n="73"/><p><span>12.</span>
<lb n="74"/><span>Is máthair í is trom fá chumhaidh,</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>Ar ndul go luath d'á céile i n-úir,</span>
<lb n="76"/><span>Athair a cloinne 's a céad-ghrádh,</span>
<lb n="77"/><span>Uch! is í do fuair a crádh!</span></p>
<lb n="78"/>
<lb n="79"/><p><span>13.</span>
<lb n="80"/><span>Ní leanfaidh sé an fiach go deóidh</span>
<lb n="81"/><span>Faoi ghleanntaibh dubha na sléibhte ceóigh,</span>
<lb n="82"/><span>Ní chluinfear a adharc go binn ag</span>
<lb n="83"/><span>séideadh,</span>
<lb n="84"/><span>Ná guth a ghadhar ar bhinn an tsléibhe.</span></p>
<lb n="85"/>
<lb n="86"/><p><span>14.</span>
<lb n="87"/><span>Ní feicfear ar lauth-each óg</span>
<lb n="88"/><span>Tar claidhe is fál ag déanamh róid;</span>
<lb n="89"/><span>Tá claochlódh ar a mhaise go deóidh,</span>
<lb n="90"/><span>Ar a mhórdhacht do thuit trom-cheó.</span></p>
<lb n="91"/>
<lb n="92"/><p><span>15.</span>
<lb n="93"/><span>A lámh bhronntach go fann 'n-a luighe,</span>
<lb n="94"/><span>A chroidhe meanmnach marbh gan bhrígh,</span>
<lb n="95"/><span>Síol na gcuradh agus cara na mbárd,</span>
<lb n="96"/><span>Searc na gceolairí chanas go hárd.</span></p>
<lb n="97"/>
<lb n="98"/><p><span>16.</span>
<lb n="99"/><span>Solas an dáin ní práidhinn dod' chlú,</span>
<lb n="100"/><span>Acht coimhréilfidh go hárd mo chumha;</span>
<lb n="101"/><span>Ag sileadh dhúinn deór faoi dheireadh</span>
<lb n="102"/><span>gach laoi,</span>
<lb n="103"/><span>Ar thuamba an churaidh do chráidh mo </span>
<lb n="104"/><span>chroidhe.</span></p>
<lb n="105"/>
<lb n="106"/><p><span>2.  Cling, knell.  Teachta = teachtaire.</span></p>
<lb n="107"/>
<lb n="108"/><p><span>8.  Spéirling, combat.  Dámh, gen. pl. bands, com-</span>
<lb n="109"/><span>panies.  Meirge = bratach, standard.  Is Urmhumhan,</span>
<lb n="110"/><span>"and of Ormond (East Munster) that was famous of old."</span></p>
<lb n="111"/>
<lb n="112"/><p><span>9.  Baile na Cúirte, Courtstown.</span></p>
<lb n="113"/>
<lb n="114"/><p><span>14.  Claochlódh, change, disfigurement.</span>
<lb n="115"/>
<pb n="151"/></p>
<lb n="116"/>
<lb n="117"/><p><span>(237).  See N. and Q., 201, 209.  The Arran phrase is</span>
<lb n="118"/><span>bhí a shliocht air, signs on it.  But they also say, tá</span>
<lb n="119"/><span>éiliocht air, probably some corruption of the former. - </span>
<lb n="120"/><span>E. O'G.</span></p>
<lb n="121"/>
<lb n="122"/><p><span>(242). </span>
<lb n="123"/><span>"Osnadh agus éigeacht na hEireann tríd a dtreóir,</span>
<lb n="124"/><span>Orchra daor agus créim do'n Mhíl-'fhuil mhóir."  - O.J.B.</span></p>
<lb n="125"/>
<lb n="126"/><p><span>(243).  I "dTórramh an Bhairille" i n-Irisleabhar</span>
<lb n="127"/><span>na Samhna, sílim gur so an Béarla budh chóir do chur ar</span>
<lb n="128"/><span>an tríomhadh líne de'n dara ceathramhain: - The wretch,</span>
<lb n="129"/><span>if he comes without store in his purse, will get the cask</span>
<lb n="130"/><span>without reckoning. Spaig, a word in common use here</span>
<lb n="131"/><span>formerly = purse.</span></p>
<lb n="132"/>
<lb n="133"/><p><span>(244).  Goradh = a warming.  I have been informed by</span>
<lb n="134"/><span>a native of Glenties that the phrase dean do ghoradh = </span>
<lb n="135"/><span>warm yourself, was one that he had heard hundreds of</span>
<lb n="136"/><span>times.  - Mac Tíre. </span></p>
<lb n="137"/>
<lb n="138"/><p><span>(245).  Nóta 212.  Ionann fód agus ball ins na solaoi-</span>
<lb n="139"/><span>dibh-sin.  Cuir i gcoimhmeas leo: "Níor fhág an fód</span>
<lb n="140"/><span>'n-a raibh 'na sheasamh"  (Seilg Shléibhe Fuaid, l. 70) = </span>
<lb n="141"/><span>he did not leave the spot on which he stood, do réir</span>
<lb n="142"/><span>Sheagháin Uí Dhálaigh.  - Mac Tíre.</span></p>
<lb n="143"/>
<lb n="144"/><p><span>(246).  Urradh, m., surety, security, Trí Bior-ghaoithe,</span>
<lb n="145"/><span>Vocab.  Still a spoken word in Donegal = strength, e.g.,</span>
<lb n="146"/><span>ní'l urradh páiste ann, he hasn't the strength of a child.</span>
<lb n="147"/><span>For a like variation in sense, we may perhaps compare</span>
<lb n="148"/><span>the Anglo-Irish phrase "on the strength of." - Mac Tíre.</span></p>
<lb n="149"/>
<lb n="150"/><p><span>(247).  Ionnsoir (No. 91, p. 121) is heard in Donegal</span>
<lb n="151"/><span>almost as often as annsoir, which represents merely</span>
<lb n="152"/><span>Ulster dialectical pronunciation as regards the a, cp.</span>
<lb n="153"/><span>anann (given by O'R.) for ionann, anad or eanad for</span>
<lb n="154"/><span>ionad, seannach for sionnach, agus c.  The a for d' or do</span>
<lb n="155"/><span>disappears before the vowel, as in other cases of the kind,</span>
<lb n="156"/><span>but remains before the consonant in the similarly formed</span>
<lb n="157"/><span>phrase, a dhíth air = do thíth ar.  I do not think either</span>
<lb n="158"/><span>d'ionnsuidhe ar or do dhíth ar are found in "classiscal"</span>
<lb n="159"/><span>Irish.  Instead of them we find d'ionnsuidhe, governing</span>
<lb n="160"/><span>genitive, e.g., do chuaidh sé d'ionnsuidhe Phádraig = </span>
<lb n="161"/><span>Donegal dial., chuaidh sé 'ionns' air Phádraig; táinig</span>
<lb n="162"/><span>sé dom' ionnsuidhe = Don. dial, thainic sé 'ionns' orm,</span>
<lb n="163"/><span>agus c., and do dhíth governing gen., a locution very frequent</span>
<lb n="164"/><span>in the Ossianic poems, e.g., Do Bhámair an Fhiann fá</span>
<lb n="165"/><span>bhrón fá cheann ár slógh a bheith d'ár ndíth (= vernac.,</span>
<lb n="166"/><span>do dhíth orainn).  Seilg Shléibhe gCuilinn; Is measa</span>
<lb n="167"/><span>linn a bheith d'ár ndíth ár ngadhair bhéilbhinn' is ár</span>
<lb n="168"/><span>gcoin, [Eachtra na mná móire thar lear.]  From this</span></p>
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<pb n="152"/>
<div><lb n="169"/><p><span>classical usage should be carefully distinguished the</span>
<lb n="170"/><span>present Ulster vernacular use of do dhíth governing gen.</span>
<lb n="171"/><span>= at the loss of, e.g., Ní'l duine dá bhfeicfeadh an</span>
<lb n="172"/><span>tseoid nach dtuitfeadh i mbrón dá díth, Peter Walsh's</span>
<lb n="173"/><span>Arranmore song.  It also occurs in Eachtrá na mná</span>
<lb n="174"/><span>móire only a few lines above previous quotation.  Do </span>
<lb n="175"/><span>thuit an Fhiann go mór i mbrón, is níor bh'iongnadh</span>
<lb n="176"/><span>dhóibh, do dhíth a gcon.</span></p>
<lb n="177"/>
<lb n="178"/><p><span>The antiquity of the Ulster construction seems proved</span>
<lb n="179"/><span>by ar following the verb ionnsuigh (ionnsaich) in Scotch-</span>
<lb n="180"/><span>Gaelic also, and the usual d'easbhaidh ar = do dhíth ar. -</span>
<lb n="181"/><span>Mac Tíre.</span></p>
<lb n="182"/>
<lb n="183"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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