wiki-illiam #109: q3

[dubdobdee]

3.

i: Whence all Mannions?
ii: Who loved his country and loved his lass?
iii: A long-legged bird flew over three Chinamen carved in what?
iv: Who forgot cruelly that even lovers are not immune from drowning?
v: Whose pupils would range from round to crescent and crescent to round?
vi: Where would I build a modest home and live in solitude, growing beans and keeping bees?
vii: Whose purity was likened favourably to a tall candle before the crucifix?
viii: Who wore small holes in his shoes and large holes in his gown?
ix: Where were the fiddler's cousin and brother priests?
x: Where did my cap acquire a halfpenny?

COMPLETED, ftb we are surrounded by actual/real poitry (viz Yeats) scholards :)


(I've supplied correct titles where we hadn't quite got them yet, but the answers are attributed to those who clearly know the poem itself).
i: "Three Songs to the One Burden" ("All Mannions come from Manannan"), looked up by alextiefling
ii: "Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites", pointed at by kerrypolka, confirmed by marnameow
iii: is "Lapis Lazuli", variously spelt by marnameow
iv: is "A Man Young and Old: III: The Mermaid", known by marnameow
v: is "The Cat and the Moon", INEVITABLY known by marnameow
vi: is "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", spotted by kerrypolka, mocked by marnameow
vii: is "Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland", googled by twitter-user petrajane
viii: is "The Ballad of Father O'Hart", googled by twitter-user petrajane
ix: is "The Fiddler of Dooney", googled by twitter-user petrajane
x: is "Running to Paradise", googled by twitter-user petrajane

Comments

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Suspect this is Irish literature.

ii. is Parnell, although I can't remember where it's from.
vi. is the Lake Isle of Innisfree of course.
ix. I KNOW THIS, it goes something something Sligo fair. I think it's also Yeats, actually. Maybe it's all Yeats?

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

I have remembered half of ix, it goes "My brother's a priest in Kilvarnet, my cousin in something-dee".

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

is it dubdob-dee?

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

YES.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Or maybe brother/cousin are vice versa (sorry I have only heard this in a pub while drunk)

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Is Macramee a place name in Ireland? That's what is coming to my head.