of the bright day"). The vision was the Pre-Christian goddess Erin bewailing the death of a man who had overthrown hundreds. In The Western Island Robin Flower relates a story told by Seanchai Tomás Ó Criomhthain, who alleged that Piaras had a stronghold upon Great Blasket Island that he used to evade the authorities. In 1934, Pádraig Ó Duinnín edited a book entitled Dánta Phiarais Feiritéir: maille le réamh-rádh agus nótaí which contained 23 of Piaras's surviving poems. In the book, Ó Duinnín devotes a chapter to the influence of Feiritéar's poetry and life on the folklore of the area. In 2001, Munster Irish poet and writer Máire Mhac an tSaoi published an award-winning novel A Bhean Óg Ón... about the relationship between Piaras and Meg Russell, for whom he wrote much of his love poetry in the Irish language. There is a memorial to Piaras Feiritéar in Muckross Abbey in Killarney, alongside three other Kerry poets from the Early Modern period. A monument of a spéirbhean (a beautiful woman, symbolizing Ireland) with the names of all four poets carved into it can be seen in Killarney town itself. References Further reading Musical instruments in Ireland 9th 14th centuries: A review of the organological evidence, Ann Buckley, pp. 13–57, Irish Musical Studies i, Blackrock, County Dublin, 1990 Music and musicians in medieval Irish society, Ann Buckley, pp. 165–190, Early Music xxviii, no.2, May 2000 Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland, Ann Buckley, pp. 744–813, in A New History of Ireland, volume one, Oxford, 2005 See also Aogán Ó Rathaille Dáibhí Ó Bruadair Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna Peadar Ó Doirnín Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta Art Mac Cumhaigh Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin External links (130) - Matheson Collection > Gleanings from Irish manuscripts - Early Gaelic Book Collections - National Library of Scotland 1600s births 1653 deaths 17th-century Irish-language poets Irish harpists People from the Dingle Peninsula Executed Irish people Irish soldiers in the Irish Confederate Wars 17th-century Irish musicians Irish-language writers