The Contention of the Bards Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh Series 2

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The Contention of the Bards Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh Series 2
and its Place in Irish Political and Literary History.
Joep Leerssen
Irish Texts Society 1994
ISBN 1870166817

Dírítear sa leabhrán seo ach go háirithe ar chomhthéacs liteartha agus staire na sraithe dánta seo ón seachtú haois déag.

An investigation of the series of poems sparked off some time around 1616 in which poets of Ireland’s ‘Southern Half’ and ‘Northern Half’ vie with one another in praising their respectives ‘Halves’.