Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún

Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún (1777 – 13 March 1857) was an Irish poet who emigrated to the United States,^[1] where he continued composing poetry in Munster Irish and contributed to literature in the Irish language outside Ireland.^[2]

Life

Cúndún was born in

The Irish language poetry that Cúndún composed in America survives through the letters he wrote to his relatives and former neighbors in Ballymacoda and due to the fact that his son, "Mr. Pierce Condon of South Brooklyn", arranged for two of his father's poems to be posthumously published by the New York City newspaper The Irish-American in 1858. The first collection of Cúndún's Irish language poetry was edited by Risteard Ó Foghludha and published in 1932. Kerby A. Miller also repeatedly quoted Cúndún's poetry in the 1985 book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. His poetry and letters also continue to be consulted by scholars.^[3]

Along with fellow Irish-language poets Diarmuid na Bolgaí Ó Sé and Máire Bhuidhe Ní Laoghaire, Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún adapted the Jacobite tradition of Aisling poetry to more recent political struggles by the Irish people. Therefore, Cúndún's poetry helped inspire the verse of more recent Irish-language poets such as Seán Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, who adapted the Aisling tradition to the events of the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Irish War of Independence.^{[5]: 238–240}

Kenneth E. Nilsen, an American linguist with a specialty in

This article about an Irish poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e