Séan Ó Coileáin (1754-1817), Carbery Poet, ‘The Silver tongue of Munster’, born into an Ireland of Broken Abbeys, Roofless Churches, Battered castles, Burnt Houses, Deserted Villages united in common Poverty.
Courtesy of Skibbereen District Historical Society, by eminent scholar Eugene Daly.
From Bantry Historian Paddy o’Keeffe.
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