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- d. c.1400
Learned Irish family
- c.1562– c.1639
Member of an Irish family of bardic poets and scribes, whose services were enlisted by William Bedell for the translation of the Old Testament into Irish.
- s. xvii
A brother of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of the occasional assistants of the Four Masters.
Irish friar, a son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
- d. 1584
- Thomond, Tír Conaill
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and brother of the poet Mac Con.
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.
A son of the Irish poet Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh and descendant of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
- d. in or after 1664
Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.
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.
Irish poet, historian and scholar, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
- fl. 15th/16th century
Irish scribe, son of Tuathal son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh. He is the main scribe of the miscellany Harley MS 5820 and Rawlinson MS 514 containing Maghnus Ó Domhnall’s Life of Colum Cille. His own floruit cannot be pinned down with any precision but his father is kown to have died in 1512.
Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach Mór) See: Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail Ó Cléirigh
Irish poet
- c.1580–c.1630
- County Donegal, Tir Conaill
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.
- d. 1595?
- Thomond
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.
Poet to Toirdhealbhach Luineach Ó Néill; killed in 1583.
