Bóithríní an Locháin agus Amhráin eile
Pádhraic Learaí Ó Finneadha
Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1994
ISBN 1 874700 35 4
Is rud í an fhilíocht a thagann anuas ó ghlúin go glúin agus nach féidir a fhoghlaim, deirtear, agus gan amhras ba é fhearacht sin é ag Pádhraic Learaí Ó Finneadha, a raibh féith na filíochta go smior ann. Tá go leor de na hamhráin sa chnuasach seo beo fós i mbéal na ndaoine, rud a chruthaíonn gur den fhilíocht fhiúntach iad. Chloígh Pádhraic Learaí Ó Finneadha leis an sean-nós cumadóireachta a bhí in Éirinn nuair a bhí sí ina Gaeltacht é ina thráchtaire ar shaol na ndaoine nuair nach raibh Raidió na Gaeltachta ann.
This is a short collection of stark, simplistic verse that is embedded in the tradition of folk poetry. Ó Finneadha’s style is direct, earthy and unostentatious. His is a poetry of resistance and rebellion that rings with tones of bitterness and cries of regret and loss. The poems stand up as a worthy social document and give an insight into the poet’s experience of resistance to British rule in his own country. – The Celtic Pen.
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