Series 3 - West Kerrymen's poems in Irish

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P/P155/42/3

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West Kerrymen's poems in Irish

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  • 1933-1990 (Creation)

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139pp

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The poems were published in Seán Ó Dubhda, ed. (1933), Duanaire Duibhneach (Baile Átha Cliath: Foilseacháin Rialtais). The Micheál Ruiséal memoir was written, recorded, and transcribed in Irish in 1955 by Seán Ó Dubhda and preserved as MS 1407 in the Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin.

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Irish-language poetry (with English translations by Bruce D. Boling) written by west Kerry emigrants Seán Ó Gormáín, Seán Ruiséal, and Séamas Ó Muircheartaigh (James Moriarty) which feature emigration from Ireland to the United States as their subjects; a excerpt from the 1955 memoir of returned emigrant Mícheal Ruiséal discussing his emigration journey; and correspondence from Kerby A. Miller to fellow academics and authors regarding the poems.

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