A theachtaire tig ón Róimh

Extracts

• The suppression of encounters and battles of the men of Ireland would be a faulty matter:
• there would be no interest shown in prince nor noble descendants after their death, though their courage had been good...
• If poems did not preserve all that they had done, even though they were noble heroes,
• there would long since have been a cloak of silence upon Niall, Conn and Cormac...
• Were it not for poetry, sweet-tongued harp of psaltery would not know of a goodly hero after his death
• nor of his reputation nor his prowess.