In the quiet corners of Cleveland’s Irish history, where census data meets family stories and where faded maps reveal the footsteps of our ancestors, Francis McGarry built an intellectual home. For more than a decade, we traveled with Francis through
learn Irish.
The historical impact of Irish poetry and literature however, is another matter. Much of the poetry written in Irish is of a political or rebellious nature.
The poem “Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire” would not