Donncad O’Futail

Donncad O’Futail is dated by Sigerson, in Bards of the Gael and Gall (1907), to 1619. The poem given here is an extract from a longer piece printed in the Miscellany of the Celtic Society, on two Irish soldiers who went to serve abroad, one of them Concobar O’Driscoll, son of Sir Fingein O’Driscoll.

“Two Champions of Christendom” is given in Sigerson’s English version.