in passing by IRA member Liam Devlin in Jack Higgins's 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed. In 2011 Seán Ó Cualáin directed a feature film Mise Raiftearaí an Fíodóir Focal/I am Raifteirí, The Weaver of Words documenting the life of Ó Raifteirí, which was produced by Sonta Teo for TG4, and featured Irish actor Aindrias de Staic in the lead role as Ó Raifteirí. A street on the Ballymagroarty estate in Derry, Raftery Close, is named after Antoine Ó Raifteirí. All the streets in the estate are named after Irish writers. Sketch of Raifteirí http://www.irishpage.com/graf/raftery.gif In Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, Stephen Gordon's horse is named Raftery after the Irish poet. Bob Dylan's 2020 song "I Contain Multitudes" contains the line "Follow me close, I'm going to Bally-na-Lee", presumed by Richard F. Thomas, Paul Muldoon, Brian Hiatt, and others to be a reference to Raifteiri's "The Lass From Bally-na-lee" ("Agus gluais go lá liom go Baile Uí Laí" / "So walk with me to Bally-na-Lee"). References Further reading External links Famous Sons of Kiltimagh Story of the Irish Poem Raftery on Kiltimagh.net Audio reading of Mise Raifteirí, an file Scoil Raifteirí Biography and poetry 1779 births 1835 deaths 18th-century Irish writers 18th-century Irish male writers 19th-century Irish writers Irish blind people Irish poets Irish-language poets Blind poets People from County Mayo People from County Galway