9th CENTURY POEM CELTIC T-SHIRT (IN IRISH LANGUAGE)

Description

Distinctive  design unisex t-shirt

Features 9th. century early Irish poem

Encompassing Irish tomb markings of the Celtic circle that dating  back 6,000 years

The poem is scripted in Gaeilge (Irish gaelic) which was the predominant language of Ireland for more than two millennia and is still spoken in Gaeltacht areas (Irish speaking regions) today

This T-shirt was hand-printed in the Connemara Gaeltacht

Translation of 9th century poem  included in rolled T – Shirt wrap

 

Poem and Translation

Gaeilge                                                                              English

An ráth, taobh leis an doire,                                     The fort beside the oak grove

ba le Bruadar é, ba le Cathal,                                    was Bruadar’s, was Cathal’s

ba le Aedo, ba le Ailiill,                                               was Aedo’s, was Cuilin’s,

ba le Connain, ba le Cuilin,                                       and it was Máel Dúin’s,

agus ba le Máel Dúin.                                                One by one, the kings sleep in the earth

Ins an ráth chaith gach rí a ré.                                 and the fort still endures.

Duine ar dhuine tá siad faoin gcré,

ach maireann an ráth.