title: Tomas O'hAodha
text: Tomás O'hAodha (Thomas Hayes, Milltown Malbay, 1856 - 1935) was een Iers dichter en cartograaf.
  
  Samen met Patrick Hehir (Padraig Ó hAichir), ook uit Miltown Malbay, maakte hij de eerste wandkaart van Ierland met plaatsnamen in de Ierse taal.
  
  Voorbeeld: het gedicht Sacrifice
  He scorned all laws but those that God had made for him
  When he obeyed the “Mother’s” piteous call.
  Then went he forth into the pathway dim,
  That he her anguished soul might disenthrall.
  
  A darkness lay upon the land like Egypt’s curse
  And hearts were shrivelled ‘neath a Stygian gloom;
  With tears and blood the tyrant would amerce
  E’en prayers that might avert a Nation’s doom.
  
  He strove to lift the pall and failed; but left a rent
  Through which the light from out the East now shines
  In ever-wid’ning beam; and in content
  The “Mother” waits, for she no longer pines.
  
  He spurned the bandeau that would veil from him his death,
  No craven fear felt then, nor e’er before; 
  His courage spoke e’en with his dying breath,
  Then honoured be his name for evermore.
  
  Iers dichter
  Cartograaf