Ailbhe Ó Corráin: The Light of The UniversePoems of Friendship and Consolation by Giolla Brighde hEdhasa Irish bardic poetry has often been depicted as the product of a medieval world view largely untouched by the prevailing European winds of intellectual change. In a seminal lecture, Osborn Bergin (one of the great editors of the genre) expressed his regret that the horizons of the poets had not been widened by the freshening influences of the Renaissance and this has in some measure set the