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Ó Cléirigh family

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A learned Irish family that produced many poets and historians to chiefs of the Uí Dhomhnaill.


See also: Ó Cléirigh (Conaire)
Ó Cléirigh (Conaire)
(s. xvii)
A brother of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of the occasional assistants of the Four Masters.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Cormac mac Diarmada mheic Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Cormac mac Diarmada mheic Taidhg Chaim)
(d. 1542)
Irish friar, a son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Cosnamhach mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Cosnamhach mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1584)
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and brother of the poet Mac Con.
See more 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.
See more 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.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)
(d. in or after 1664)
Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim)
(d. 1522)
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.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach mac Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach mac Taidhg Chaim)
(d. 1527)
Irish poet, historian and scholar, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail)
Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail)
(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.
See more 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.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Mac Con mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1595?)
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 more Ó Cléirigh (Maol Mhuire mac Diarmada)
Ó Cléirigh (Maol Mhuire mac Diarmada)
(ob. 1583)
Poet to Toirdhealbhach Luineach Ó Néill; killed in 1583.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)
Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)
(d. 1643)
Irish scholar, historian and scribe.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Muiris Ballach mac Con Choigcríche)
Ó Cléirigh (Muiris Ballach mac Con Choigcríche)
(d. 1572)
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and a brother of the poet Mac Con; was executed with two poets in 1572.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Seán) [d. 1846]
Ó Cléirigh (Seán) ... d. 1846
(1778–1846)
Seán (or John) Ó Cleirigh, Irish scribe who could probably claim descent from certain illustrious scholars of the Uí Chléirigh, even if his own testimony seems fuzzy and inconsistent. He appears to have had, perhaps inherited, an unknown number of Irish manuscripts written by or associated with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, five of which he brought to Dublin in 1817.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam mac Tuathail)
Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam mac Tuathail)
(1565)
Ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill.
See more Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam)
Ó Cléirigh (Tadhg Cam)
(d. 1492)
According to his obit in AFM s.a. 1492, ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill in history, poetry and literature (i n-eiccsi, h-i filidheacht ⁊ a senchus).
See more Ó Cléirigh (Tuathal mac Taidhg Chaim)
Ó Cléirigh (Tuathal mac Taidhg Chaim)
(d. 1512)
Irish poet and historian, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
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