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Revision as of 12:12, 12 September 2006 by Stevecull (talk | contribs) (tidy up link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the Lament for Art O'Leary is an Irish keen, or dirge written by his wifeEibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill.
It details the murder at Carraig an Ime, County Cork of Art, at the hands of Abraham Morris, and the aftermath. It is one of the keys texts in the Irish oral literature corpus. The poem was compsed ex tempore and follows the rhythmic and societal conventions associated with keening and the traditional Irish wake respectively.
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