]> Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán? An electronic edition Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin Electronic edition compiled by Benjamin Hazard University College Cork Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project Second draft. 805 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork.
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 Manuscript sources Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 8, p. 294m, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. I-V (volume 1) 66. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 14, p. 188, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. I-V (volume 1) 371. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 B 7, p. 31, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. VI-X (volume 2) 906. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 M 43, 8m, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. VI-X (volume 4) 16-20. The edition used in the digital edition Osborn Bergin Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán? Irish Bardic Poetry Osborn Bergin Dublin Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1970 145–146

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 Mathghamhain Ó Hifearnáin, an Irish bardic poet c.1600–1625 The text is in Classical Modern Irish. bardic poetry 17c 2010-11-11 Beatrix Färber ed. New wordcount made. 2008-10-11 Beatrix Färber ed. Minor changes made to header, line-breaks re-arranged; keywords added; dates added. 2005-08-25 Julianne Nyhan ed. Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion 2005-08-04T16:12:20+0100 Peter Flynn ed. Converted to XML 2003-05-14 Beatrix Färber ed. Minor changes made to header; line-breaks inserted; HTML file created. 2003-05-12 Benjamin Hazard ed. Header constructed, structural mark-up entered and checked. Lineation checked and verified; text parsed using NSGMLS. 1995 Staff at the School of Celtic Studies (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) ed. Text captured by scanning and proofed. Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán?

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 Ceist! cia do cheinneóchadh dán? a chiall is ceirteólas suadh: an ngéabhadh, nó an áil le haon, dán saor do-bhéaradh go buan? Gé dán sin go snadhmadh bhfis, gach margadh ó chrois go crois do shiobhail mé an Mhumhain leis— ní breis é a-nuraidh ná a-nois. D'éirneist gémadh beag an bonn, níor chuir fear ná éinbhean ann, níor luaidh aoinfhear créad dá chionn, níor fhéagh liom Gaoidheal ná Gall. Ceard mar so ní sochar dhún, gé dochar a dol fa lár: uaisle dul re déiniomh cíor— ga bríogh d'éinfhior dul re dán? Ní mhair Corc Chaisil ná Cian, nár chaigil a gcrodh ná a luagh, na réidhfhir ag díol na ndámh— slán lé síol Éibhir mon-uar. Geall bronnta níor beanadh dhíobh, Cobhthach go teasda agus Tál: iomdha drong diongbhaim dá luadh, uaim anonn dá ndiongnainn dán. Mé im luing cheannaigh ar gcaill laist d'éis Chlann nGearailt do thuill teist: ní chluinim—is cás rom loisg: fás an toisg fá gcuirim ceist.