Pádraigín Haicéad (English Patrick Hackett; Latin Patricius Hacquettus; c. 1604 – November 1654) was an Irish-language poet and

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. His father was James Hackett FitzPiers, from an

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family at Ballytarsna near

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. From his

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mother Mairéad Ní Chearna (Margaret Kearney) of Littleton he seems to have gained knowledge of Gaelic legends and

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. Around the year 1625, Haicéad joined the Dominicans in

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, and, in 1628, went to the Irish College, Louvain, returning to Ireland in 1638 as

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of St. Dominic's Abbey, Cashel. The Butlers of Dunboyne were related to his mother and

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s of his; the 1640 death of Edmond amonnButler, Baron Dunboyne was a turning point in his personal and poetic life. He wrote a (lament) for Eamonn whose metre became usual in of the subsequent decades. He supported the

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and in the ensuing

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he was a preacher in the

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army. In 1647, Haicéad and other preachers' opposition to Donough MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry's leadership helped cause the disintegration of the Confederate army. He was ordered back to Louvain in 1651 and died there. Editions of Haicéad's poems were published in 1916 and 1962. English translations have been published by

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for most poems, and in lesser numbers by

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, and

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. Before entering the Dominicans, Haicéad wrote two

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s to Máire Tóibín, of which "Dála an Nóinín" is apparently translated from an English-language poem by either Thomas Watson or Charles Best. As well as poetry in the ''

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'' form, he wrote

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and an

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's air " Kathleen Nowlan". His writings use , "agreeableness" as a

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for well-written poetry.

Features of Haicéad's Poetry

The poetry of Haicéad has been used as evidenceÓ Sé, Diarmaid: 1989, "Contributions to the Study of Word Stress in Irish", ''Ériú'' 40; 147-178. Dublin; Royal Irish Academy that – already by the early 1600s, and at least in the

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area of

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– word-stress was (regularly?) placed on a word's second syllable if it contained a long vowel, as found in modern

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. This is seen in the final words of the following lines: "''A Chríost, is buan 's is truagh mo ghéar-ghearán''" ( �ɪˈɾˠɑːn̪ˠ "O Christ, eternal and a pity is my bitter complaint" "''re dlaoi chais bhród-ómraigh a dual-chocán''" ( ʊˈkɑːn̪ˠ, (Poem 51, line 20) "with a proud amber-coloured curled lock of her tress-hairbun"

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