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- According to Daniel Corkery, the first aisling poems in the Irish language were composed during the early 17th century by the Roman Catholic priest, historian, and poet Geoffrey Keating.
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The first [5] of the aisling poets was Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, athair na haisling e ('father of the aisling'). In the hands of Ó Rathaille, the aisling tradition was bound up for the first time with the cause of the House of Stuart and of the Jacobite risings .
Aodhagán Ó Rathaille is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem (a type of coded poem where Ireland is portrayed as a beautiful woman who bewails the current state of affairs and predicts an imminent revival of fortune, usually linked to the return of a Stuart King to the English throne). This style of poetry became a ...
Aisling, in Irish literature, a poetic or dramatic description or representation of a vision. The Vision of Adamnán is one of the best-known examples. In the 18th century the aisling became popular as a means of expressing support for the exiled Roman Catholic king James II of England and Ireland.
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4 days ago · A mode of lyrical poetry in late 17th‐ and 18th‐century Irish in which the speaker encounters a spéir‐bhean (‘sky‐woman’), a beautiful maiden representing Ireland, often suffering ... From: aisling in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
he achieved his greatest distinction in the aisling-form, notably in the poem “Gile na gile [Brightness of brightness]”, a lament for the Gaelic order telling of a bright vision seen by the poet on a lonely path; also wrote praise-poems for the O’Donoghue [Domhnall - who presented him with a pair of shoes], the O’Mahony, and the O ...
Jun 4, 2009 · The Aisling (shāys-ling Gaelic for "dream") is a genre of verse of the late 17th and 18th centuries Ireland. It is a vision poem. In the Aisling, Ireland appears to the poet in the form of a woman referred to as Spéirbhean (spair- van sky-woman).
The poem is set to a traditional tune called "Aisling an Óigfhear", or "The Young Man's Dream", [2] which was transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792, based on a performance by harper Denis Hempson (Donnchadh Ó hAmhsaigh) at the Belfast Harp Festival. [3]
