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Thread #158788 Message #3758661
Posted By: keberoxu
15-Dec-15 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Roisin Dubh (Dark Rosaleen)
Subject: RE: Origins: Roisin Dubh (Dark Rosaleen)
In contrast to the previous two citations, this one insists on a specific bard.
From "An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama"
from the selection on James Clarence Mangan:
" 'Dark Rosaleen' is Mangan's version of Róisín Dubh, a seventeenth-century poem ascribed to Owen Roe MacWard."
Editors, Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop
Syracuse University Press, 1987