He wrote a life of his master, and some Irish poems, which are now lost, but which were seen by Adomnán.
It may be argued that Maynard did not write the ballad but adapted it from an Irish poem.
Mr. Davey has provided his own substitutes for these, adapted from Irish poems, and added a host of other numbers.
There's an Irish poem where a warrior says the nbest music is the 'music of what happens', and I agree.
He quoted, to the irritation of his more sensitive colleagues, an Irish poem on the subject of forts:
- an Irish poem dated to the late 16th century.
His most successful choral work in this genre is "Dúlamán", a setting of the traditional Irish poem of the same name.
Its basis is a medieval Irish poem about the onset of winter, a metaphor for death.
To conclude, here is a short quote, which could best be described as an ancient Irish poem.
He knew an Irish poem once but it was about fairies and had no sign of a highwayman in it.