aisling poets was Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, e ('father of the aisling'). In the hands of Ó Rathaille, the aisling tradition was bound up for the first time with the cause of the House of Stuart and of the Jacobite risings. It was Ó Rathaille who, for the first time, made the woman from the Otherworld lament the continued exile of the Stuart heir. According to Daniel Corkery, "The Aisling proper is Jacobite poetry; and a typical example would run something like this: The poet, weak with thinking of the woe that has overtaken the Gael, falls into a deep slumber. In his dreaming a figure of radiant beauty draws near. She is so bright, so stately, the poet imagines her one of the immortals. Is she Deirdre? Is she Gearnait? Or is she Helen? Or Venus? He questions her, and learns that she is Erin; and her sorrow, he is told, is for her true mate who is in exile beyond the seas. This true mate is, according to the date of the composition, either the Old or Young Pretender; and the poem ends with a promise of speedy redemption on the return of the King's son." Also famed for his works in the genre is Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin. Among the most famous examples of Aisling poetry are Gile na gile by Ó Rathaille and Ceo draíochta i gcoim oíche by Ó Súilleabháin. The wildly popular sean-nós song Mo Ghile Mear, which was composed by County Cork bard Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill, is a lament for the defeat of the Jacobite rising of 1745 at the Battle of Culloden. The poem is a soliloquy by the Kingdom of Ireland, whom Seán Clárach personifies as the goddess Erin bewailing her state and describing herself as a grieving widow due to the defeat and exile of her lawful King. Since being popularised by Sean O Riada, Mo Ghile Mear has become one of the most popular Irish songs ever written. It has been recorded by The Chieftains, Mary Black, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Sting, Sibéal, and many other artists. In 1753, John Cameron of Dochanassie composed "A Song to Doctor Cameron", an Aisling poem in Scottish Gaelic lamenting the absence from the lands of Clan Cameron of Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, who had just become the last Jacobite to be executed for high treason at Tyburn. Cathleen ni Houlihan, was based on