Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire CD
Le Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill
Cór Ban Chúil Aodha
Saothar ceoil nuachumtha
Le Peadar Ó Riada
Tá Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire ar an gcaoineadh is mó cáil sa Ghaeilge. Chum Eibhlín Dubh Ni Chonaill (aintín le Dónall Ó Conaill – An Fuascailteoir) an caoineadh os cionn corp a fir chéile Art Ó Laoghaire, a maraíodh ar an 4 Bealtaine 1773. Caoineadh is ea é ina gcuireann Eibhlín Dubh beatha agus bás tragóideach Airt as comhair an phobail i bhfilíocht phearsanta shaibhir. Cé go bhfuil gnéithe traidisiúnta an chaointe le brath go láidir ar an saothar; is treise fós ar an mothú pearsanta tríd síos.
This late eighteenth century epic poem is one of the greatest laments and one of the greatest love poems of the Irish Language. Eibhlín Ní Chonaill – wife of Art Ó Laoghaire – composed this caoineadh which captures the life and tragic death of her husband Art on the 4th May 1773. The caoineadh is divided into five parts composed in the main over the dead body of her husband at the time of the wake and later when Art was re-interred in Kilcrea.
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