To part from Devlin is hard as Nugent knew

• From thee, sweet Delvin, must I part: Gerald Nugent, Ode Written on Leaving Ireland, translated into English by the Reverend William Hamilton Drummond, D.D. → in a note, Drummond explains that Delvin is a barony in County Westmeath, where Nugent's family held a marquisate
  • Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland

• Devlin: a medieval name for Dublin

• delving

• the devil

• living