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Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna

c. 1680–1756·Wrote in Irish

Dispossession · The Gaelic poets of dispossession (17th–19th centuries) · Co. Cavan · Irish

Cavan poet, ex-seminarian, drinker and rake. An Bonnán Buí — the poet mourning a bittern dead of thirst and resolving never to be caught the same way — is among the most beloved poems in Irish.

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