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<text><body><div><p><span>GREANN NA GAEDHILGE.</span></p>
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<lb n="2"/><p><span>AN POITÍN.</span></p>
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<lb n="4"/><p><span>Cúradh ar an bpoitín seo!</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>Is mairg nach nglacann e!</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>Is iomdha croidhe tartach a thóigeann sé.</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>Chan fhuil o'n rígh go dtí an bacach</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>Nár mhian a bheith i n-' aice,</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>'S ní'l dhá mhéad a thaithighe nach móide a</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>spéis.</span></p>
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<lb n="12"/><p><span>Tagra.</span></p>
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<lb n="14"/><p><span>The above is only a fragment — half a stanza — </span>
<lb n="15"/><span>of a song that is current in Co. Meath.  It was obtained</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>from Peter McDonagh, a native of Mullagh Theamhrach,</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>or, in English, Somerville, a place situate on the </span>
<lb n="18"/><span>Nanny River, close to where it is crossed by the road</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>from Dublin to Slane.  Cúradh ar, bad 'cess to.  Is</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>marg nach nglacann e, woe to him who doesn't take it.</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>This construction of is mairg with direct relative is</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>classical usage.  Tartach, thirsty = tarthmar; many </span>
<lb n="23"/><span>adjectives in -mhar in the South ar found to corres-</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>pond to others in the North ending in -ach.  A thóigeann</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>= do thógann = thógas, rel. form.  Ní'l dhá mhéad, &c.,</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>the more he is used to it, the greater is his appetite for</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>it (but constructed with two negatives).  For móide we</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>also find mó-sa-chách and amhlaidh is mó in this locution.</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>The last half line is not only excellent Irish phrasing,</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>but could well be used as a warning in favour of tem-</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>perance.</span></p>
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1600 - 1926

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