In the course of an earlier poetry season I posted an English language version, by John Montague, of a poem addressed to Oliver Cromwell. I could not find the Irish original at the time, but I have since. Here it is with (first) another translation by Joseph Theodoor Leerssen -

MORE POWER TO YOU CROMWELL
(Aogán Ó Rathaille)

More power to you Cromwell
you king in rustics' chronicles;
during your reign we got peace,
honey, cream and honour.

Just as Patrick removed murrain
from the race of Adam in Ireland,
so you removed our one-day -a-week service
and many unjust ordinances.

I pray that no Kavanagh, O'Byrne,
O'Nolan, Kinsella,
Rice nor Roche
may get a sod of his ancestral land.


Treise leat a Chromuil
a righ chroinic na sculóg'
as red linn fuaireamar suaimhneas,
mil, uachtar agus onóir.

Mar do choisg Pádruig an bó-ár
do chloinn Ádhaimh an Éirinn
do choisg tú dhínne lá seachtmhuine
is mórán dliosdionuis éigirt.

Iarruim gan Caomhánach ná Branach,
Nuallánach ná Cinnsiolach,
Raoisioch ná Róisteach
d'fhagháil fóid do chuid a sinnsior.