Egan O'Rahilly

Egan O'Rahilly or Aogán Ó Rathaille (Gaelic name: Aodhagán Ó Rathaille) (1670–1726) was an Irish language poet.

Quotes

 * For the future I cease, Death approaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed; I’ll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes my ancestors followed before Christ died.
 * Closing lines of his last known poem (c.1729)
 * Translated from the Irish by Owen Dudley Edwards, as quoted in Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 626


 * That my old bitter heart was pierced in this black doom, That foreign devils have made our land a tomb, That the sun that was Munster's glory has gone down Has made me a beggar before you,Valentine Brown.
 * "Valentine Brown", as quoted in An Anthology of Irish Literature (1954), p. 239
 * Variant translation: Because all night my mind inclines to wander and to rave, Because the English dogs have made Ireland a green grave, Because all of Munster's glory is daily trampled down, I have traveled far to meet you, Valentine Brown.

Quotes about O'Rahilly

 * Aodhagán Ó Rathaille sang this sang That I maun sing again; For I've met the Brightness o' Brightness Like him in a lanely glen.
 * Hugh MacDiarmid, in To Circumjack Cencrastus (1930)