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Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill ‘The life of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill’

Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh
  • Early Modern Irish
  • prose
  • Irish literature
Author
Ó Cléirigh (Lughaidh)
Ó Cléirigh (Lughaidh)
(c.1580–c.1630)
Irish historian and poet, known best as the author of a ‘biography’ of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill (Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill) and as one of the initiators of the ‘Contention of the Bards’; was one of the sons of Mac Con Ó Cléirigh and a cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.
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Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 24 (138) [s. xvii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 9 (139) [s. xviii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 D 14
English translation of a part of the original.
London, British Library, MS Egerton 123
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
Date
c.1616
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish literatureIrish literature
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Subjects

Nine Years WarNine Years War
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Battle of KinsaleBattle of Kinsale
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Ó Domhnaill (Aodh Ruadh)
Ó Domhnaill (Aodh Ruadh)
(1572–1602)
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Walsh, Paul [ed,], Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill, as Leabhar Lughaidh Uí Chlérigh: The life of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill, transcribed from the Book of Lughaidh Ó Clérigh, 2 vols, vol. 1, Irish Texts Society, 42, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1948.  
comments: I. Text and translation
II. Introduction, glossary, et al.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Corpas.ria.ie – edition: <link>
[ed.] Breatnach, Pádraig A., “A seventeenth-century abridgement of Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill”, Éigse 33 (2002): 77–172.
[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Denis, Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Ui Dhomhnaill: The life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, prince of Tirconnell (1586-1602), Dublin: Fallon, 1895.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Walsh, Paul [ed.], Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Ui Dhomhnaill: The life of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill, transcribed from the Book of Lughaidh Ó Clérigh, 2 vols, Irish Texts Society, 42, 45, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1948–1957.
The second volume contains an introduction, etc.
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
August 2013, last updated: January 2024
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