A Chinn Choradh, caidhi Brian
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beg. A Chinn Choradh, caidhi Brian?
Mac Líacc [Muirchertach]
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Mac Líacc ... Muirchertach
(d.. 1014 / 1016 (AU))
Middle Irish poet, who is described as 'chief poet of Ireland' (ard-ollamh Érenn) in the Annals of Ulster; becomes the subject of a body of later medieval Irish literature.
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Elegiac poem lamenting the desolation of Kincora (Co. Clare), Brian Bóruma's seat, after the battle of Clontarf.
Beatha Chríost
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beg. Sé lá bhí Dia ’na bhriathraibh caoine
A lengthy Modern Irish poem (roughly about 4000 lines) on the life and death of Christ.
Cáineadh Whaley
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beg. Créd an tocht nó an sprocht so ar Ghaodhlaibh?
Ó Dálaigh (Fear Dorcha)
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Ó Dálaigh (Fear Dorcha)
(fl. late 17th c.)
Irish poet based in Dublin, son of Cormac Ó Dálaigh; known for an Irish poem which vilifies astrologer John Walley.
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Irish poem composed in 1701 by Fear Dorcha Ó Dálaigh as a lampoon on Dublin astrologer and almanac-maker John Whalley.
Sloinfead scothadh na Gaoidhilge grinn
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26 st.
beg. Sloinfead scothadh na Gaoidhilge grinn
Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)
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Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)
(c.1670–c. 1752)
Irish scribe and scholar, son of Seán Ó Neachtain.
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A versified Irish list (26 qq) of scholars and scribes active in Dublin in the early 18th century. T. F. O'Rahilly, who produced an edition of the poem, attributes the poem to Tadhg Ó Neachtain, who also wrote the manuscript in which the poem is attested.
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