Suantraí dá Mhac Tabhartha, also known as Lullaby to his Illegitimate Son is an

Irish-language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the ...

poem by

Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin (174829 June 1784), anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan ("Red Owen"), was an Irish poet. He is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" p ...

(c. 1748 – 29 June 1782).

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An Leabhar Mòr ''An Leabhar Mòr'', subtitled ''The Great Book of Gaelic'', is a celebration of the modern Celtic muse. Published in 2002 by Proiseact nan Ealan (the Gaelic Arts Agency), it contains an anthology of poetry in Irish and Scottish Gaelic from the ...

/The Great Book of Gaelic'', ed. Theo Dorgan and Malcolm Maclean, 2008. 18th-century Irish literature Irish literature Irish poems Texts in Irish Irish-language literature 18th-century poems {{Ireland-hist-stub