Life
A keener, and the informant who supplied transcipts of traditional keens;
see Angela Bourke, ‘Working and Weeping: Women’s Oral Poetry
in Irish and Scottish Gaelic Poetry’, in Women’s Studies Working
Papers, no. 7 (UCD Women’s Studies Forum 1988), cited in Nuala Ní
Dhomhnaill, ‘What Foremothers?’, in Theresa O’Connor, The
Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers (Florida UP 1996), pp.8-20;
p.12.
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