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Forgotten Irish poem - may have been on Leaving at some point

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  • 14-06-2009 8:03pm
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    guliolopez
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    Seeking help. See this thread is anyone can remember poem with line: "Saol an chipín ag dul le sruth, Saol an néil éagruthaigh"....


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    7Steve
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    Are you sure it even exists?


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    star-pants
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    7Steve wrote: »
    Are you sure it even exists?
    Was just thinking that, a quick google only throws up boards, and then a few places that have one or two of the words but nothing concrete


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    Jammyc
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    Try translating it and searching with the translation, often its translated and talked about?


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    guliolopez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭guliolopez


    Thanks for that, but there are scarce few Irish poems "online" - unless they happen to be on current/recent LC curricula. And sometimes not even then. As you say therefore, Google hasn't been much help.

    I tried "translating and Googling it", too. But again nothing. (FYI: Translation of those lines = something like "life of a twig floating with the stream, life of a shapeless cloud".)

    What I'd hoped in posting here was that someone (student, teacher or someone with better memory than me) might recognise it and could open their Irish poetry book to the page. Rather than pointing to a Google search page I missed.

    (FYI. I'm pretty sure it exists. If it doesn't, and I made it up myself in a dream, then I may just give up the day job and start my own poetry corner... :) )


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