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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter T

Tuirenn

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Father of Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba, whose sons’ penance forms a tragic saga

Detailed Definition
Tuirenn’s grief over his sons’ deaths underscores the tale’s pathos. He represents paternal sorrow and the inexorable machinery of fate. Poets reference Tuirenn to explore the limits of justice, the generational cost of violence, and the quiet devastation of watching one’s children perish in a doomed quest.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tuirenn is the father of Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba in the tragic tale of their quests; His grief over his sons’ deaths underscores the tale’s emotional weight; Poets reference Tuirenn to explore paternal loss and the consequences of vengeance; His name anchors one of Ireland’s great tragic cycles; He symbolizes the elder generation witnessing heroic sacrifice; His story is a cornerstone of Irish narrative poetry on fate and reparation.
Additional Notes
Tuirenn is the father of Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba in the tragic tale of their quests to atone for killing Cian. His grief underscores the emotional weight of the narrative. Students should analyze Tuirenn as the elder generation witnessing heroic sacrifice—his role frames the tale’s tragedy. Poets reference Tuirenn to explore paternal loss, the consequences of vengeance, or the generational cost of honor—making him essential for understanding the emotional architecture of one of Ireland’s great mythic tragedies.
Also Known As
Tuirenn the Grieving Father Patriarch of the Tragic Sons The Mourning Elder The Father of Atonement
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