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  • fl. late 17th c.
Irish poet based in Dublin, son of Cormac Ó Dálaigh; known for an Irish poem which vilifies astrologer John Walley.

Ó Dálaigh (Feardorcha) See: Fear Dorcha Ó Dálaigh

also Gofraidh Ó Dálaigh Fionn; Irish bardic poet of the Ó Dálaigh family
  • fl. 15th century
Mathghamhain (mac Domhnaill mheic Eoghain) Ó Dálaigh, Irish poet. The Book of Lismore contains a poem ascribed to him, which is addressed to Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach, patron of that manuscript.

Ó Dálaigh (Muireadhach Albanach) See: Muiredach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

  • fl. 13th century, first half
Irish bardic poet of the Ó Dálaigh family.
  • fl. 15th century
  • Holy Trinity Abbey, Lough Key
A canon credited with an Irish translation of the Life of St Margaret. The colophon in Egerton MS 1781 identifies him as do muintir na Trínoídi, which has been read as referring to the Premonstratensian monastery on the Island of the Holy Trinity in Loch Cé (Co. Roscommon), or alternatively, its daughter-house in Loch Uachtair (Co. Cavan).
(Ua Dálaig; Ó Dálaigh; Ó Dhálaigh; angl. O'Daly) Irish family of poets and scholars
an important learned family of legal historians.

Ó Deóráin family See: Ó Deóradháin family

  • fl. 17th century, first half
  • Belgium, Ostend
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.
Also known to those around him as Cathal, was emeritus Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow.
  • c.1700–1769
  • County Armagh, County Louth
Ulster poet and (hedge)schoolmaster.