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Donnchadh Ó Cobhthaigh
Diarmait Ó Cobhthaigh was an Irish people, Irish poet, fl. 1584. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family, based in what is now County Westmeath but was once the heartland of the original kingdom of Mide. The family were from the district known as Fir Thulach. He was the author of a penitential Composition (language), composition, ''Acht mar uisge d'éis a leata'' ("Just as water, after it has frozen"), which was a translation of the Latin poem ''Lympha coacta gelu'' ("Liquid, condensed by cold"). The translation survives only in a black half-column of Rawlinson B 505, on Folio (printing), folio 89''v''b, a collection of Irish saint's lives now held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. See also * An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh, died 1415. * Diarmait Ó Cobhthaigh, fl. 1584. References * ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:O Cobhthaigh, Donnchadh Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish People
The Irish ( ga, Muintir na hÉireann or ''Na hÉireannaigh'') are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common history and culture. There have been humans in Ireland for about 33,000 years, and it has been continually inhabited for more than 10,000 years (see Prehistoric Ireland). For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people (see Gaelic Ireland). From the 9th century, small numbers of Vikings settled in Ireland, becoming the Norse-Gaels. Anglo-Normans also conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century, while England's 16th/17th century conquest and colonisation of Ireland brought many English and Lowland Scots to parts of the island, especially the north. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland (officially called Ireland) and Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom). The people of Northern Ireland hold various national identities including British, Irish, Northern Irish or som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
