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Ó hAnluain (Bhailintín) See: Vailintín Ó hAnluain

Ó hAnluain (Uailintín) See: Vailintín Ó hAnluain

  • fl. 18th century
  • Dublin
Irish scribe associated with the Ó Neachtain circle in Dublin.
  • s. xx–xxi
  • c.1560–1612
  • Baile Uí Eódhasa
Irish poet; father of Eochaidh Ó hEódhasa
learned family of poets, originally from Ulster

Ó hEódhasa family See: Ó hEodhasa family

  • c.1570(?)–d. 1614
  • Douai, Louvain
Irish scholar and poet, who after being trained in Ireland, pursued his theological studies abroad, first at Douai and later at St Anthony's College, Louvain (est. 1607), where he was accepted as friar and later as lecturer by the religious name of Bonaventura; author of an Irish catechism, An teagasg críosdaidhe (1611/1614), the first Catholic work to be printed in Irish; a treatise on Irish grammar and prosody entitled Rudimenta grammaticae Hibernicae; and a number of vernacular poems.

Ó hEódhusa (Muiris) See: Muiris Ó hEoghusa

  • 16th century?
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).
Niocól Ó hÍceadha, Irish medical scholar who together with Aonghus Ó Callanáin undertook a vernacular translation of a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.