Editing Carrickfergus (section)

==Carrickfergus in song and poetry==
The town is the subject of the classic [[Folk music of Ireland|Irish folk song]] "[[Carrickfergus (song)|Carrickfergus]]", a 19th-century translation of an Irish-language song (''Do Bhí Bean Uasal'')<ref>Amhránleabhar Ógra Éireann, Folens, Dublin (8th edition, 1971)</ref> from [[Munster]], which begins with the words, "I wish I was in Carrickfergus".<ref>George Petrie: Ancient Music of Ireland, M.H. Gill, Dublin 1855 (re-printed 2005, University of Leeds; {{ISBN|978-1-85918-398-4}})</ref>

[[Scottish Gaelic language|Scottish Gaelic]] poet [[Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair]]'s ''[[immram]]'' poem ''Birlinn Chloinne Raghnaill'' ("The Birlinn of [[Clanranald]]"), describes the sea voyage of a [[Birlinn|Highland war galley]] from Loch Eynort, in [[South Uist]], to Carrickfergus. Alan Riach, who has translated the poem into English, has praised the genius of its 18th-century author and how brilliantly he emulated both [[Homer]] and [[Virgil]] in telling his tale of men against the sea.<ref>[https://www.thenational.scot/news/14861548.not-burns-alasdair-mac-mhaighstir-alasdair/ Not Burns – Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair!] by Alan Riach, ''The National: The Newspaper that Supports an Independent Scotland'', 11, February 2016.</ref> Riach has also alleged that, in addition to being an immortal work of [[Scottish Gaelic literature]], ''The Birlinn of Clanranald'', is, "one of the great poems of [[world literature]]."<ref>[https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/alan-riach/ The Scottish Poetry Library interviews Alan Riach], June 2016.</ref>