Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol
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Dia libh a laochruidh Gaoidhiol is a poem by Aonghas mac Doighre Uí Dhálaigh. The title can be translated as 'God be with you, O war-band of the Gaels.'
In the poem, Uí Dhálaigh
In the poem, Uí Dhálaigh
"contrasts the hardship endured by the Uí Bhroin (ByrneByrneByrne meaning 'raven', is derived from the Irish name Ó Broin, and is the seventh most common surname in Ireland today.-History:...
) on the WicklowWicklowWicklow) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. Located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island, it has a population of 10,070 according to the 2006 census. The town is situated to the east of the N11 route between Dublin and Wexford. Wicklow is also connected to the rail...
mountions, not with the ease they would have enjoyed in peace-time, but with the prosperity of their Anglo-Irish enemies occupying the fertile lowlands which were once the patrimony of the Uí Bhroin themselves. ... [it belongs] ... to the late sixteenth century, when the original idea of the contrast between ease and hardship had become pherhaps a little hackneyed, and required some new slant to lift it out of the commonplace."