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Cuireann Beckett an file i gcomhthéacs na haimsire: ‘Bhí claochló mór ag teacht ar Éirinn i rith na tréimhse seo. Bhí fás abhalmhór ar an daonra go dtí gur thóg galair agus imirce an Ghorta na milliúin leo . . .’

The poems of Aodh Mac Domhnaill (1802 -1867), one of those teachers employed to bring literacy to the people in order that they might be able to read the Protestant Bible. There is a light-heartedness to many of the poems in defiance of the misery of the times.