Antoine Ó Raifteiri (Anthony Raftery) (1784 - 1835) was an Irish language poet who is often called the last of the wandering bards. 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... A 1907 engraving of William Butler Yeats, one of Irelands best-known poets. ... A bard is a poet and singer, with the particular meaning differing for various countries and epochs. ...

A native of County Mayo, Ó Raifteiri was blind from birth and lived by playing his fiddle and performing his songs and poems in the big houses of the West of Ireland. His work, which draws on the forms and idiom of folk poetry, is widely regarded as marking the end of the literary tradition of the bardic schools. None of his poems were written down during the poet's lifetime, but they were collected later by Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory and others. County Mayo (Irish: Maigh Eo) is a county on the west coast of Ireland. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ... Douglas Hyde (Ir: Dubhghlas de hÍde [doog-las de heeja]) (January 17, 1860 - July 12, 1949) was a Gaelic scholar who served as the first President of Ireland (1938-1945). ... A photograph of Lady Gregory from her 1913 book Our Irish Theatre Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852–22 May 1932), née Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. ...

Ó Raifteiri's most enduring poems include Eanach Dhuin, Cill Aodain and Mise Raifteiri an file, all of which are still learned by Irish schoolchildren.