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I met the Love-Talker one eve in the glen,
He was handsomer than any of our handsome young men,
His eyes were blacker than the sloe, his voice sweeter far
Than the crooning of old Kevin's pipes beyond in Coolnagar.

Ethna Carbery

Oh, Kathaleen Ní Houlihan, your road's a thorny way,
And 'tis a faithful soul would walk the flints with you for aye,
Would walk the sharp and cruel flints until his locks grew grey.

Ethna Carbery

Young Rody MacCorley goes to die
On the Bridge of Toome today.

Ethna Carbery

Ethna Carbery

Ethna Carbery

Born: December 3, 1866

Died: April 21, 1902 (aged 35)

Bio: Ethna Carbery was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. Along with Alice Milligan she published two Irish nationalist magazines.

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