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... musicians of a past that antedates the Christian era . The gol- den chain of music - makers unites us with the harpers who sat in their appointed places on the hill of Tara and , with their music , " softened the pillow " of Cor- mac ...
... musicians of a past that antedates the Christian era . The gol- den chain of music - makers unites us with the harpers who sat in their appointed places on the hill of Tara and , with their music , " softened the pillow " of Cor- mac ...
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... musicians , them- selves proscribed , grieved for exiled Tyrone and Tir- connel ; they sang the dirge of Owen Roe O'Neill . They mourned the ire of Cromwell , and women and children murdered in hundreds about the cross of Drogheda ...
... musicians , them- selves proscribed , grieved for exiled Tyrone and Tir- connel ; they sang the dirge of Owen Roe O'Neill . They mourned the ire of Cromwell , and women and children murdered in hundreds about the cross of Drogheda ...
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... musician . The bard was a poet , learned in the complex metres of Gaelic verse , a com- poser of panegyrics and elegies , of odes and satires . When , as was often the case , his verses were intended to be sung , he generally entrusted ...
... musician . The bard was a poet , learned in the complex metres of Gaelic verse , a com- poser of panegyrics and elegies , of odes and satires . When , as was often the case , his verses were intended to be sung , he generally entrusted ...
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... musician . Even in the heyday of Celticism we find the professions co- quetting with each other . For example , we are told in the Book of Lecan that " When Felin Mac Crif- fin , monarch of Erin , was in Cashel of the Kings , there came ...
... musician . Even in the heyday of Celticism we find the professions co- quetting with each other . For example , we are told in the Book of Lecan that " When Felin Mac Crif- fin , monarch of Erin , was in Cashel of the Kings , there came ...
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... musician ? That is the question . The manner of the poem calls him a poet ; its matter proclaims him a musician . He surely had in him the stuff of which bards are made . Even in O'Curry's literal translation we feel the glow of genius ...
... musician ? That is the question . The manner of the poem calls him a poet ; its matter proclaims him a musician . He surely had in him the stuff of which bards are made . Even in O'Curry's literal translation we feel the glow of genius ...
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