Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
- Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna (c. 1680 – 1756) was, along with Peadar Ó Doirnín, Art Mac Cumhaigh and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta one of the four most prominent of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has been described as 'an Irish-speaking Christy Moore, an incisive ballad singing entertainer for a totally Irish-speaking community of poor people living at or below subsistence in the early 18th Century.' [ http://www.eofeasa.ie/cathalbui/public_html/danta_CB/who_was_CB.html| Féile Chathal Buí 2006]
Mac Giolla Ghunna was probably born in Fermanagh and, having initially gone on to be a priest, settled for a career as a rake-poet. [ "An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed", p. 133] It has been remarked about his poetry that 'of the handful of poems attributed to him, most are marked by a rare humanity, but none can match An Bonnán Buí (The Yellow Bittern) with its finely-judged blend of pathos and humour'. [ Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, "An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed", p. 133] Although "Cathal Buí", as he is still affectionately termed in the folklore of Bréifne, is now little known in Ireland, his masterpiece An Bonnán Buí remains one of the best known laments and songs in Irish from the past few centuries. [ [http://www.eofeasa.ie/cathalbui/public_html/danta_CB/an_bonnan_bui.html An Bonnán Buí] , with a translation by Seamus Heaney.] A study of the Bréifne school of poetry is forthcoming from Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin. [ [http://www.irishsong.com/work.html Gaelic Song Tradition of Bréifne project] ] His memory is celebrated annually in his home country - Blacklion(Cavan) and Belcoo(Fermanagh) with a festival named in his honour, [http://www.eofeasa.ie/cathalbui/public_html/index.html Féile Chathal Buí.]
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ee also
* Piaras Feiritéar
* Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
* Aogán Ó Rathaille
* Peadar Ó Doirnín
* Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
* Art Mac Cumhaigh
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