Sliabh Luachra Bards

The bards of old Sliabh Luachra their fame is forever young Their poems still read and recited and I recall when I was young Around the fireplace on winter nights old men stories to us told Sliabh Luachra's literary history from ancestral times of old. Stories of Egan O Rahilly and Owen Roe O Sullivan Gaelic bards of renown In their time they were famous in every Irish town Literary translators their poetry into English did translate The true bards as we know too well are never out of date. Sliabh Luachra on the Cork and Kerry border is now known Worldwide Some renowned literary people were from that countryside Patrick Dinneen the lexiographer and his famous poetic brother Joe Kept Sliabh Luachra on the literary map their legends in death grow. The last great bard of Sliabh Luachra was Ned Buckley of Knocknagree His fame today is living in his memorable poetry The bards of old Sliabh Luachra at peace forever lay And through their legacy to literature we remember them today.