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A Rich Inheritance
Another poet of the Clonmany area was Donncha O'Dónaill who wrote the best known song in Irish in Inishowen. Pléaracha na bPollán. He was also fond of the poitin;
You may notice some differences between the Irish of the above and that of West the use of 'duisigh' instead of 'muscail', for example. The reason for the difference is that Inishowen Irish related to East Ulster Irish, as did that of Derry and Tyrone.
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ancestral heritage of Inishowen includes the poetry of St. Mura of
Fahan in old Irish, the composition of the monk Maelíosa O
Brolcháin of Culdaff, including the hymn 'Deus Meus' which
alternates between Latin and Irish. In 1705, Donncha O Muirgheasáin
of Clonmany wrote an elegy , in Irish, on the death of the Scottish
chief, Norman MacLeod. After the loss of the old patronage system,
which supported the poet, poetry became the property of the common
people. There was a poet in Malin called Séan Mac an Mherige
(O Dochartaigh) who fought with King James at the Battle of the Boyne.
The old man's battle was the demon whiskey. 
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