re Joy Bennett's message 2 May 2001: Joy quotes a poem by James Stephens. You can find the words at http://www.paul.rothwell.net/stephens/poetry/poetryrecital/12.html
is the James Stephens' verse sung? His poem does not seem related to verses that are sung to the well-known Coolin air, but it also has the "beautiful maiden" meaning of coolin, cúilfhionn, cúileann (the more modern spelling, probably derived from from cúil-fhionn, as the 'fh' is silent)

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