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Ó Cléirigh (Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche)

  • d. 1595?
  • Thomond
  • poets
  • (agents)
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.


See also: Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche mac Diarmada mheic Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche mac Diarmada mheic Taidhg Chaim)
(s. xvimed)
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.

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Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche mac Meic Con)
Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche mac Meic Con)
A son of the Irish poet Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh and descendant of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.

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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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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

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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.
Ó Cléirigh, Tomás, “A poem book of the O'Donnells [part 1]”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 51–61.
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