Firinne

You're right about "coulin" - my mistake. There's a reference to Carroll Malone's poem "The Coulin Forbidden" in an incomplete online copy of the McCarthy book I referred to HERE .

I remain convinced it is a typically romanitic, Spirit of the Nation response to the earlier translations. Have you seen any reference to a Gaelic original?

Regards

p.s. Curiously enough, I see some suggestion that the pseudonym Carroll Malone was used to cover several authors. I may get a chance to check on this next week.