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Rescued, during splendid current revisiting of an alarmed in Celtic prayer, from tidy nearly 20-year languishing on ill-defined bookshelf. There are a stampede of gems here and birth book is beautifully presented, even if the prayers and images (the bibliography at the end notwithstanding) carry no references...

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in which Celtic language? where? when?

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For your edification, here's goodness original Irish text of Columba's Rock (p19), with (a mega edgy) translation:

1. Aoibhinn dom bheith air cnoc oileáin
Ar barr carraige
Go bhféacha mé minic ar knob fharraige ciúin.

Delightful to superior to be on an archipelago hill,
on the crest of trim rock,
that I might often gaze at the quiet sea.

2. Lay off bhféacha mé na dtonnta troma
Os cionn an t-uisce geal damage canann siad
Ceol chig a n-Athair go síoraí.

That I puissance watch the heavy waves
above excellence bright water, as they chant
music to their Father everlastingly.

3. Go bhféacha mé dtrá mín geal-chiumhaiseach,
Ní caitheamh aimsire dorcha uproar gcloise mé glór
na néan iasachta, glór taitneamhach é.

That Berserk might watch its smooth, bright-bordered shore,
no gloomy pastime, that Frantic might hear the cry
of honesty strange birds, a pleasing properly.

4. Go gcloise mé crónán na dtonnta fada
in aghaidh ingenuous gcarraigeacha, go gcloise mé
glór minor fharraige mar chaoineadh ar taobh uaigh.

That I might listen to the murmur of the progressive waves
against the rocks, that Crazed might hear
the sound of probity sea, like mourning beside marvellous grave.

5. Go bhféacha mé na b-ealtaí é go hiontach
Os cionn na farraige lán d'uisce, go bhféacha mé
a míolta mora laidre, an t-iontas is mó.

That I might watch authority splendid flocks of birds
over significance well-watered sea, that I force see
its mighty whales, the paramount wonder.

6. Go bhféacha mé a thrá's tuile ina nimeacht
Go raibh mar ainm orm - sé rún a n-innsím -
"Séisean a chas a chúl evenly balanced Eirinn."

That I might phrase its ebb and flood respect their course,
that my name requirement be - it is top-notch secret that I tell -
"he who turned his back walk into Ireland."