Poems on marcher lords : from a sixteenth-century Tipperary manuscript / edited by Anne O'Sullivan ; assisted by Padraig O Riain
1987, First Edition. London : Irish Texts Society. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #242345
ISBN: 1870166531
Series; Irish Texts Society ; v. 53. Physical description; xxviii, 140 p. : maps ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [97]-121) and indexes. Middle Irish texts with English parallel translations, introd. and notes. Contents; Elegy for John Cantwell -- Elegy for James Purcell -- Elegy for Tadhg O Carroll -- Elegy for Philip Hackett -- In praise of Piaras Butler. Subjects; Elegiac poetry, Irish. Irish poetry — Middle Irish, (1100-1550). Irish poetry — Middle Irish, (1100-1550) — Translations into English. Elegiac poetry, Irish — Ireland — Tipperary (County). Irish poetry — Middle Irish, (1100-1550) — Manuscripts. English poetry — Translations from Irish. Irish poetry — 16th century. Ireland — History — (1172-1603) — Sources. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated.
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