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Ó Carthaigh (Aodh Ollbharr)

  • fl. 12th or 15th century?
  • Irish bardic poets, Irish poets
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Irish poet about whom little is known. A poem on the rights of Mac Diarmada of Magh Luirg, beg. A-tá sonn sochar na ríogh, is attributed to him, with the description ollamh of Crúachan, as is one beg. Tosach féile fairsinge, addressed to Tomaltach Mac Diarmada, although the latter may actually be the work of Torna Ó Maoil Chonaire. The evidence, slight as it is, might place him in 15th-century(?) Connacht and point to affiliations with the Meic Dhiarmada. An older suggestion is that he is to be identified with an earlier poet, the Aed ua Carthaig to whom the dinnshenchas poem on Mide is attributed in the Book of Leinster. This would fit in with the annnalistic evidence for Uí Carthaig ollamha of Connacht in the 11th and 12th centuries.


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Simms, Katharine, From kings to warlords: the changing political structure of Gaelic Ireland in the later Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History, 7, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1987.
29–30, 133–134
Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa, “The rights of Mac Diarmada”, Celtica 6 (1963): 156–172.
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 5, Todd Lecture Series, 12, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1935.
Internet Archive – vol. 5: <link>  : View in Mirador
93–94, note 10 Having noted the attribution in the copy of Tosach féile fairsinge in RIA MS 23 L 17, as O'Curry, Gwynn infers from this that “it is probable that the scribe of 23 L 17 had reason to believe that Aodh Ollabhar lived in the 15th century”.
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