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Listening To Fadas
by Paddy FitzGibbon
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26th April 2011
ISBN: 978-1-908024-36-7
Price: €25.00
The object of this book is to try to understand the changes that took place in the use of metre in Gaelic Poetry in Ireland roughly between the Battle of Kinsale and The Famine. The disappearance of the old Gaelic order in the aftermath of Kinsale had the result that the Bardic tradition, which had stretched back for more than a thousand years died off more or less immediately.
A new and and very different form of poetry emerged.
The book is not meant to be a survey of Gaelic poetry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Paddy has simply taken a number of poems and pointed out certain aspects of them which he thinks will be helpful when looking at the wider corpus of Gaelic poetry dating from that time.
