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Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche mac Diarmada mheic Taidhg Chaim)

  • s. xvimed
  • Irish poets, scholars, historians
  • (agents)
Irish poet and possibly historian, a son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh (not to be confused with his better known namesake, the annalist Cú Choigcríche (son of Diarmaid) Ó Cléirigh). Five of his poems are preserved in NLI MS G 167 and another in a Copenhagen MS.


See also: Ó Cléirigh (Cosnamhach mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Cosnamhach mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1584)
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and brother of the poet Mac Con.

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Ó Cléirigh (Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim)
(d. 1522)
Irish scholar, historian and poet, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh. His obit in the Annals of Ulster describes him as a duine maith ealadhna and sai re sencus ⁊ fer dána maith. He was slain in 1522.

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Ó Cléirigh (Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1595?)
Irish poet and historian, who was a son of Cú Choigcríche son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh and ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill. The AFM laud him for his erudition, eloquence and religious piety.

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Ó Cléirigh (Muiris Ballach mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Muiris Ballach mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1572)
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and a brother of the poet Mac Con; was executed with two poets in 1572.

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Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam)
Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam)
(d. 1492)
According to his obit in AFM s.a. 1492, ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill in history, poetry and literature (i n-eiccsi, h-i filidheacht ⁊ a senchus).

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Ó Cléirigh family
Ó Cléirigh family
A learned Irish family that produced many poets and historians to chiefs of the Uí Dhomhnaill.

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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Walsh, Paul, The O Cléirigh family of Tír Conaill: an essay, with the O Cléirigh genealogies, Dublin: O Lochlainn, 1938. viii + 50 pp + 3 pl.
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