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Seán (or John) Ó Cleirigh, Irish scribe who could probably claim descent from certain illustrious scholars of the Uí Chléirigh, even if his own testimony seems fuzzy and inconsistent. He appears to have had, perhaps inherited, an unknown number of Irish manuscripts written by or associated with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, five of which he brought to Dublin in 1817.

Irish lexicographer

Irish scribe

Irish priest and scholar

Irish scribe and physician from a medical family in Ossory.

Seághan Ó Conuill / John O'Connell, Irish scribe

Murchadh (Riabhach) Ó Cuindlis, Irish scribe; pupil of Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh

Irish scribe, assistant of Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh.

Irish scribe and poet

Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.

Irish scribe and sculptor based in Cork.

Irish scribe, known as one of the three that wrote parts of the Book of Ballymote (RIA MS 23 P 12) under the tutelage of Domnall Mac Aedhagáin.

Irish poet and historian.

Domhnall mac Aodha Ó Duibh Dá Bhoireann, main scribe of BL Egerton 88.

Irish scribe, known as one of the Four Masters

Irish professional scribe, member of the Ó Duibhgeannáin family.

Irish scribe

Irish scribe, known as one of the three that wrote parts of the Book of Ballymote (RIA MS 23 P 12) under the tutelage of Domnall Mac Aedhagáin.

Irish historian and scribe, known for producing NLI MS G 1.

angl. Duigenan, important learned family of historians and scribes

Irish scribe from a learned family of historians

Irish scribe

Irish scribe

Irish scribe and agricultural worker.

Donnchadh (Bán) Ó Floinn, Irish scribe, scholar and publisher from Cork.

Irish poet

Irish scribe and schoolmaster who lived in Dublin

Irish scribe associated with the Ó Neachtain circle in Dublin.

Irish scribe (NLI MS G 14) and poet, whose name is invoked as the author of Díon Ulltach 'na n-urríoghaibh (39 qq, Copenhagen NKS MS 268b = no. XXI in Greene's edition) and a poem on the birth and crucifixion of Christ, Tosach ar mbeathadh bás Dé (Eg. 136, TCD 1285).

Irish scribe

Irish scribe and scholar of the Uí Léighin of Fermoy, whose scribal contributions include medicinal and astronomical texts.

scribe from Limerick

Irish scribe; son of Mícheál mac Peadair Ó Longáin

Peattair/Peadar Ó Longáin, scribe who was based in Co. Cork and belonged to the Ó Longáin family of scribes; son of Mícheál Óg and brother of Pól Ó Longáin.

scribe who was based in Co. Cork and belonged to the Ó Longáin family of scribes; son of Mícheál Óg and brother of Peadar Ó Longáin.

An Irish family of scribes who together produced hundreds of Irish-language manuscripts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Irish scribe and scholar of Arda on the Erne (Co. Fermanagh)

Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín, Irish scribe

learned family of legal historians

Irish scribe; one of the scholars known as the Four Masters

Muirgheas mac Pháidín Uí Maoil Chonaire, of Cluain Plocáin, scribe and compiler of the Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26).

Irish scholar, poet and scribe of the Ó Maoil Chonaire family. He is known to have made a small contribution to the Annals of the Four Masters.

Important learned family of poets, historians and scribes based in Connacht.

Irish scribe.

Franciscan friar of Brantry (Co. Tyrone), who has been identified as the author of a journal describing the first years (1641-1647) of the Irish Confederate Wars.

Irish teacher and scribe based in the city and county of Cork.

Irish scribe and scholar, son of Seán Ó Neachtain.

Irish scribe

Ulster poet and scribe, who in one of his manuscripts gives his name as Pádraig Ua Pronntaigh mhic Néill mhic Seadhain, ó Loch Eírne.

Irish scribe

Irish antiquarian

Irish scribe.

Irish businessman, storyteller and schoolteacher, known for writing a diary, largely in Irish, between 1827 and 1835.

Domhnall Ó Teimhinn (or perhaps Teinn), Irish scribe

Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare (Co. Roscommon), Irish scholar

Irish scholar

Irish scholar

Roderic(k) O'Flaherty / Ruaidhrí (Óg) Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish nobleman, historian and collector of manuscripts; author of Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia (1685).

Nicholas O'Kearney /Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh, Irish scholar

Irish scholar and compiler of an Irish-English dictionary (1817)

Irish historian and author, of the O'Sullivans of Beare and Bantry, who lived as an exile in Spain and Portugal, following the Nine Years’ War and the Irish defeat at Kinsale. He wrote a number of Latin treatises on subjects of Irish interest.

archbishop of Canterbury, antiquarian and patron.

Welsh scholar from Cardigan, who assisted Edward Lhuyd on his travels in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany, and became keeper of the Ashmolean in Oxford.

Welsh poet; scribe of Peniarth MS 182.

Scholar and administrator of Brecon; son of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llywelyn and of Gwenllian daughter of Hywel ap Madog.

A medical practitioner based in Redruth, Cornwall, who was also an author on mining and mineralogy, an antiquary and an advocate of the Cornish language.

Welsh scholar, antiquarian, author, lexicographer; author of a Welsh and English Dictionary (1803)

Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library

Welsh physician, scholar and grammarian

Stiabhna Ríghis/Rís or Stephen Rice, a Munster scribe who became active in Dublin and befriended Tadhg Ó Neachtáin.

Carmelite friar, who had been a brother of the priory at York and later became prior of the Carmelite friary at Hulne, near Alnwick (Northumberland). He oversaw and probably contributed to the compilation of BNF lat. 4126, the so-called Poppleton manuscript.

Irish: Séamus Ó Scoireadh, farmer, scholar and translator from Kilkenny.

Welsh scribe who was active in or near Cwm Tawe (the Swansea valley).

Scottish army surgeon, and Gaelic scholar, scribe and owner of manuscripts; was the younger brother of Rev. John Smith, who wrote and translated in Scottish Gaelic. Ronald Black (below, p. 11): “a native of Glenorchy and graduate of St Andrews, had been a surgeon in Crieff, with the Black Watch in America, and with the Breadalbane Fencibles at Enniskillen in Ireland. Now holding a staff appointment in Edinburgh, he had built up a big personal collection of old manuscripts, gleaned mainly in Ireland. He had written a ‘Disquisition on the Ancient Celts’ and an ‘Ancient History of the Scots’, neither of which was published”.

English clergyman, archbishop of Canterbury (1694–1715).

Welsh priest(?) and scribe.

Irish scholar, scribe and antiquarian from Mitchelstown (Co. Dublin).

abbot and coarb of Terryglass (Tír Dá Glas), near Lough Derg, and one of the scribes and compilers of the Book of Leinster.

fourth son of the antiquary Robert Vaughan.

Welsh antiquary; collector of manuscripts in the Hengwrt library

Irish Franciscan friar, historian and author

(Sir) James Ware, Irish scholar, historian and antiquarian

Welsh priest, physician, scribe and scholar.

Welsh scholar, antiquarian and clergyman.

Irish antiquarian and historian in Cork

Welsh politician and landowner, member of the Wynn family of Gwydir (Caernarfonshire) and author of a history of that family.