A Game of Sorrows

Примечания

1

Fynes Moryson, quoted in Caesar Litton Falkiner, Illustrations of Irish History and Topography: mainly of the seventeenth century (London, 1904), Part II, contemporary accounts of Ireland in the seventeenth century, 247–8.

2

‘The Downfall of the Gael’, by Fearflatha O’Gnive (fl. 1562), translation by Samuel Ferguson in Kathleen Hoagland (ed.), 1000 Years of Irish Poetry: the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present (Connecticut, 1947).

3

‘Roisin Dubh’, Anonymous (attr. 16th century), translation by James Clarence Mangan in Hoagland (ed.), 1000 Years of Irish Poetry.

4

Excerpt from Chichester’s epitaph transcribed from the Chichester Memorial, Donegall Aisle, St Nicholas church, Carrickfergus.

5

‘Deirdre’s Lament for the Sons of Usnagh’, from the Red Branch Cycle, 12th century, translation by Samuel Ferguson in Hoagland (ed.), 1000 Years of Irish Poetry.

6

Sean’s epitaph, taken from letter of Shane O’Neill, ‘The Proud’, to Sir Henry Sidney, 1565. Quoted in Jonathon Bardon, A History of Ulster (Belfast, 2001), 79.