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Austin Clarke's poetry is divided here into the three major periods of his life. The publication in 1917 of his first long poem, "The Vengeance of Fionn" set the mood for his early narratives based on the saga cycles of ancient Ireland. These include the Fiannaigheacht, a series of stories about Fionn MacChumhall and his young, unmarried, Fenian warriors, 2000-year-old stories that were lost to the mainstream of Irish consciousness but survived and multiplied among the peasantry; and the Ulster cycle, another series whose central epic, the Tain, relates the deeds of the mighty hero, Cuchulain...
...Vengeance of Fionn," is the story of Grainne, the betrothed of Fionn, and how after she elopes with Diarmuid, Flonn wreaks his savage vengeance upon them. The poem begins with the same engulfing lyrical rhythms that were to characterize much of Clarke's earlier poetry; their sense of grace and music--especially when heard on recordings with Clarke's thick brogue--is perhaps the best this century has yet to offer, combining the rhythms of the symbolist tradition with the sharper forms of the imagists. When Fionn first learns that the two lovers have escaped, for instance. Clarke uses swift...
Some of the things Angus learned out of school he never would have found in books. They were the hundreds of tales his father knew, that had been told by the MacMillans for generations. Some of the stories took hours to tell (like the one about Warrior Fionn's wonderful swordsmith, who had four hands and could turn out two swords at a time). Other stories took only a few minutes (like the simpleton who outwitted the lawyer). Angus learned them all by heart, and never changed a word...
...hundred of the Fiana came out of the beast alive, including the son of the King of Greece, but their clothes were gone, and they were hairless thereafter. Fionn Loch, White Lake, had been the name of the lake where the monster resided. From that day on, it was called Loch Dearg, Red Lake. Loch Dearg is in Donegal, in Ireland...
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