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Chapter 13  
     
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 Cuileann A name, such a name  
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 Is it not so that first land, then beast were first named?  
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 Thereafter, great warriors and chiefs, the gods of ancients were also our names.  
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 Son of, grandson of. That is how we have been told.  
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 That is how it seems the way of things.  
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 Reason then, all names of Ireland be of plant, of land or hero.  
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 Such truth indeed, it is no lie.  
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 Save one band of heroes consigned to myth.  
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 Once flesh and blood, their name  
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 their memory cut out.  
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 They were and are the greatest of all the heroes.  
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 They were the teachers,  
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 the poets, the lawmakers, the judges,  
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 They were the healers and advisors  
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 They were the mystics and prophets  
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 They were the best of men  
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 until they stood in the way of a great lie.  
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 And so scattered to the wind, they’d be.  
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 Their name, rooted forever with the Holly  
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 Their name, the source of all holy  
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 One one holy family has their been  
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 In all the ancient world.  
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 All that have been called the holy family are from the Holly.  
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 A name, never to be changed, was corrupted.  
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 Cuillieann became cualann  
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 Cuillieann became cuileann  
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 Cuileann became coilean  
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 And Cullen and a host of other names  
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 of those with no memory of who or what they once were.  
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 The cuileann, cuilieann, Cualann, Cullen, Cuilinn and Cuillin  
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 The O’Collins, the O’Coileain  
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 In their stead came myth and legend, of great warriors and poets.  
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 To hide the Holly.  
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 Did Charlemagne chop down the Holly Tree, the World Tree or Yggdrasil of ancient Germany.  
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 To end the reign of Holly.  
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 Did they curse the Holly first a druids.  
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 As the "closed ones", not worthy of mention.  
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 An end, in language not the beginning.  
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 Save once fatal flaw.  
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 That mother tongue of Irish,  
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 a living history of truth was not ended.  
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 While books and flesh were burned, it survived.  
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 With it the answer to the riddle?  
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 The name of the Cuilliean, the druids.  
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 Come then see, eala, the swan  
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 Come then see éan and éin the birds  
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 The divine messengers of ancient times.  
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 Come and bear witness to the coil, the cuil, the woods.  
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 Hear the singing of the lia, the stones and ancient name of healers.  
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 Together they are not a plant or an animal  
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 Nor hero, nor place  
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 But all of these  
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 Together the words are the living Ireland  
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 A title greater than kings  
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 The divine medicine men of the woods  
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 The divine holy ones  
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 The serpents  
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 The Cuilleain  
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 The Holly  
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 The true and only druid clan.  

 
 
 

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