The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10313   Message #70830
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14-Apr-99 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Clun Malla (Cluain Meala, field of honey)
Subject: Lyr Add: PRÍOSÚN CHLUAIN MEALA
Cluain Meala = Clonmel( as in Co. Tipperary)
Can any Mudcatter say for sure who composed the English version? I think it's published in Kathleen Hoagland's "1000 Years of Irish Poetry".

PRÍOSÚN CHLUAIN MEALA

Ó, bliain is lá amárach
Sea d'fhágas an baile
A' dul go hArd Pádraig,
'Cur lásaí le m' hata.
Bhí Buachaillí Bána ann
Is rás acu ar Eallaibh,
Is mé go dubhach uaigneach
I bpríosún Chluain Meala

Tá mo shrian is mo dhiallait
Ar iasacht le fada.
Mo chamán ar fiaradh
Faoi iarthar mo leapa,
Mo liatróid dá bualadh
Ag buachaillí an ghleanna -
Is go mbuailfinn poc báire
Chomh hard leis na fearaibh!

A Chiarraigh bígí ' guí liom,
Is bog binn liom bhur nglórtha,
Is beag a shíleas-sa choíche
Ná béarfainnse beo oraibh:
Go mbeidh ár dtrí cinn-ne
Ar trí spící mar sheó acu,
Faoi schneachta na hoíche,
Is gach síon eile á ngeobhaidh chugainn!