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Langue d'expression : irlandais
Pays : Irlande
Date de naissance :
1715
Date de mort :
1810
Genre : Masculin
Notes
Note publique d'information :
Donnchadha Ruadh Mac Conmara, who was born in East Clare in about 1715, was educated
in Rome for the priesthood. His character was not in accord with that discipline and
he was expelled, whereupon he turned to writing poetry. He was a competitor at the
Court of Poetry held by Piaras MacGearailt in Cork in 1743. Donnchadha earned his
living for a while as a schoolmaster in Waterford and it is possible that he emigrated
to Newfoundland from there. [...]. He wrote a poem, "The Adventures of a Luckless
Fellow", which, as an account of an emigrant's voyage, would seem to be authentic,
especially as there was constant traffic between Waterford and Newfoundland at that
time. [...]. To qualify for various other jobs that might be available to him, he
converted from Catholic to Protestant and back again. He seems to have travelled in
Europe, which may have given him the inspiration for that famous poem of rich nostalgia,
"Ban Chnoic Éireann Oigh", (The Fair Hills of Ireland), which sounds infinitely more
mellifluous in Irish. His "Song of Repentance", written towards the close of his days,
is considered to be far superior to the sentimental poetry of the eighteenth century.
He lived to be 95 and died in his native Waterford.