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Mac Domhnaill (Somhairle)

  • c. 1586–1632
  • Flanders
  • patrons of manuscript production
  • (agents)
(Captain) Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, soldier who belonged to Clann Dhomhnaill of Co. Antrim; ended up in Flanders in 1616 to join the Irish regiment of the Spanish army; a patron who commissioned the compilation of Irish manuscripts.
Castlerea, Clonalis House, Book of O'Conor Don = Book of O’Conor Don (Leabhar Uí Chonchubhair Dhoinn) [s. xvii]
scribes:Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh)patron:Mac Domhnaill (Somhairle)
Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 20 (b) = Duanaire Finn [s. xvii1]
scribes:Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh)patron:Mac Domhnaill (Somhairle)


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Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh)
(fl. 17th century, first half)
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.
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Walsh, Paul, “The books of Captain Sorley MacDonnell”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 5th series, 30 (1927): 337–351, 561–568.  
Jennings, Brendan, “Appendix L: Some documents concerning the scribe of Duanaire Finn and his patron”, in: Gerard Murphy, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953. 217–219.
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Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society, 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953.
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