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The Midnight Court

work by Merriman

Also known as: “Cúirt an Mheadhon Oidhche”

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place in Gaelic literature

In Celtic literature: Late period
…Oidhche (written 1780, published 1904; The Midnight Court) by Brian Merriman, a schoolmaster from County Clare. Considered the greatest comic poem in the Irish language, it satirizes the aisling tradition and offers a bawdy critique of sexual conventions, including priestly celibacy and marriages between the very old and the young…
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translation by O’Connor

In Frank O’Connor
…17th-century satire by Brian Merriman, The Midnight Court (1945), which is considered by many to be the finest single poem written in Irish. It was included in O’Connor’s later collection of translations, Kings, Lords, and Commons (1959).
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