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Egan O'Rahilly Quotes

d. 1726 Ireland

Egan O'Rahilly or Aogán Ó Rathaille (Gaelic name: Aodhagán Ó Rathaille) (1670–1726) was an Irish language poet.

Ireland
Poets

Also known as: Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, Aogán Ó Rathaille

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For the future I cease, Death approaches with little delay,
Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed;
I’ll follow the heroes far from the light of day,
The princes my ancestors followed before Christ died.

Closing lines of his last known poem (1729)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Egan O'Rahilly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.