Piaras Feiritéar

[2] His best known work, Leig díot t’airm, a mhacoimh mná ("Lay aside thy arms, maiden"), is a poem about a beautiful woman.

Instead, he was seized at Castlemaine and hanged alongside others, including his brother-in-law, Dominican friar Tadhg Ó Muircheartaigh, on Cnocán na gCaorach in Killarney on 15 October 1653.

[3] Piaras Feiritéar remains a folk hero for the Irish-speaking people of the Dingle Peninsula, particularly in his native Ard na Caithne, where the ruins of his family's castle can still be seen, and his poetry still lives as the oral literature.

[3] Writing in 1926, Daniel Corkery revealed that Piaras Feiritéar's 1653 execution helped give birth to the Aisling tradition within Irish poetry, in which a spéirbhean (a beautiful and queenly woman from the Otherworld, symbolizing Ireland) laments her state and, in later versions, prophesies a better future.

In 1934, Pádraig Ó Duinnín edited a book entitled Dánta Phiarais Feiritéir: maille le réamh-rádh agus nótaí which contained 23 of Piaras's surviving poems.