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The article focuses on the Gaelic poet Pádraigín Haicéad and events in the summer of 1647 that led to the collapse of a confederate association in the province of Munster. The legitimacy of the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics of Ireland which was questioned by three Dominican friars, the role of Viscount Muskerry in quelling seditious behavior in the Munster army, the power structures that are the context for Haicead's poetry, and the excommunication crises of 1646 are mentioned.