Tháinig dhá long i dtír i nDún na Séad in Iarthar Chorcaí sa bhliain 1901. Long ó Oileán Cléire ba ea ceann amháin díobh, agus b’as Oileán Mhanann don cheann eile. Chuaigh iascairithe ón dá long ag ól le chéile, mar a dheineann, i gceann de na tithe tábhairne suaracha sin i nDún na Séad

As this is the Micheál Ó Cléirigh summer school, I thought I should begin with a reference to him. My reference is one with which many of you are already familiar. It is Patrick Kavanagh’s really bad poem, ‘In Memory of Brother Michael.’ I should say that I am a fervent admirer of PK’s poetry,