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Tadhg Mór Ó HUiginn
Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn was an Irish poet. Ó hUiginn was a member of a highly regarded Connacht O'Higgins family of bards. His surviving poems include: * ''Gach éan mar a adhbha'' * ''Slán fat fholcadh'' See also * O'Higgins family * Tadg Óg Ó hUiginn * Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn * Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn * Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hUiginn Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hÚigínn () was an Irish bardic poet. Background Ó hÚigínn was a member of a well-known Irish family of bards or poets, based in Connacht. His surviving works include: * '' Foraire Uladh ar Aodh'' * ''Do ... External links * http://celt.ucc.ie/published/G402121/index.html * http://celt.ucc.ie/published/G402137/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:O Huiginn, Tadhg Mor Writers from County Mayo Medieval Irish poets Year of birth missing Year of death unknown Irish male poets ... [...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] |
Connacht
Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Delbhna). Between the reigns of Conchobar mac Taidg Mór (died 882) and his descendant, Aedh mac Ruaidri Ó Conchobair (reigned 1228–33), it became a kingdom under the rule of the Uí Briúin Aí dynasty, whose ruling sept adopted the surname Ua Conchobair. At its greatest extent, it incorporated the often independent Kingdom of Breifne, as well as vassalage from the lordships of western Mide and west Leinster. Two of its greatest kings, Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair (1088–1156) and his son Ruaidri Ua Conchobair (c. 1115–1198) greatly expanded the kingdom's dominance, so much so that both became High King of Ireland. The Kingdom of Connacht collapsed in the 1230s because of civil war within the royal dynasty, which enabled widespread Hiber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Higgins Family
O'Higgins (Irish: ''Ó hUiginn'') is an Irish noble family. Its Ballynary line is descended from Shean Duff O'Higgins ( fl. 1600 C.E.), Gaelic Baron of Ballynary, who was married to a daughter of the royal family of O'Conor at Ballintuber Castle in Connacht. Shean Duff O'Higgins himself claimed descent from King Niall of Tara (d. 450 C.E.). Historically, many of their ancestors were poets and scholars who enjoyed the patronage of several chiefly families including O'Conor Don, MacDermott, O'Doherty, O'Gara, and MacDonagh. O'Higgins are counted among the Gaelic nobility as a sept of the royal house of O'Neill. Members of this family were further ennobled in 1724 by James III (pretender to the throne of England and Ireland) during his exile in France. A branch that emigrated to Spanish America was ennobled in the Spanish nobility in 1795 and 1796 by Charles IV of Spain; later members of this branch became prominent in the liberation and politics of republican Chile. Family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bards
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. With the decline of a living bardic tradition in the modern period, the term has loosened to mean a generic minstrel or author (especially a famous one). For example, William Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore are respectively known as "the Bard of Avon" (often simply "the Bard") and "the Bard of Bengal".Oxford Dictionary of English, s.v. ''bard'', n.1. In 16th-century Scotland, it turned into a derogatory term for an itinerant musician; nonetheless it was later romanticised by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Etymology The English term ''bard'' is a loan word from the Celtic languages: Gaulish: ''bardo-'' ('bard, poet'), mga, bard and ('bard, poet'), wlm, bardd ('singer, poet'), Middle Breton: ''barz'' ('mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadg Óg Ó HUiginn
Tadg Óg Ó hUiginn (born c.1370, died 1448) was an Irish poet. Life and background Ó hUiginn was a member of a well-known Irish family of bards, based in Connacht. His father, Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn, died in 1391, while all that is known of his mother is her first name, Áine. He had an elder brother, Fearghal Ruadh Ó hUiginn, who succeeded his father as head of the family and died c.1400. The historian of Medieval Gaelic Ireland, Marc Caball, believes him to have been a great-grandson of Tadhg Ó hUiginn, a celebrated poet who died in 1315. Further personal details are few, but he did marry and have issue. His descendants included Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn who became an Archbishop of Tuam in 1586, and the poet Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn (died c.1591). The Irish annals state that he kept a school for training in Irish bardic poetry with lodgings for scholars and pilgrims, and died at Kilconla ( mga, Cill Chonnla; ga, Cill Chluaine) in the barony of Dunmore, County Galway, in 1448. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadhg Dall Ó HUiginn
Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn (c. 1550 – c.1591) was an Irish poet. Background A well-known late-Gaelic era poet, Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn was a member of a family of professional poets from north Connacht. His mother's name is unknown. His father was Mathghamhain mac Maolmhuire, a direct descendant of Tadg Óg Ó hUiginn (died 1448), prominent poet of his day. His brother, Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn, was a priest who became Archbishop of Tuam, yet also followed family tradition in composing poetry (little surviving). He died in 1590. Tadhg had lands at Doughrarane in Achonry, and Coolrecuil in Kilmactigue, among other parcels in County Sligo, where he served as a juror. The twentieth-century editor and translator of his works for the Irish Texts Society, Eleanor Knott, suggests that these were lands originally granted to his ancestors by the O'Conor Sligo family, who were the patrons of this bardic family. That he was called by the soubriquet ('blind') suggests that Ó hUiginn's vision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Bocht Ó HUiginn
Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn, Irish poet, died 1487. Background Ó hUiginn was a member of a Connacht-based family of bards. His father was Conn Crosach, but nothing else is known of his place within the family, or where he lived. His obituary in the Annals of Ulster describes him as an observant Franciscan brother. His membership of this order led to his nickname ''bocht'' (poor), as the Franciscans observed vows of poverty. Poems Ó hUiginn's poetry is exclusively religious. Clearly highly trained, he utilised the strict ''Dán Díreach'' form of Classical Modern Irish. Much of his verse used complex and very difficult metres with ease and to good effect. Frequently invoking Saint Francis and Saint Michael, they however show little of theology and are more of a type associated with lay bards. They give almost no glimpse of his personal life and times. His compositions however enjoyed a high level of popularity among fellow poets in his lifetime, Twenty-eight poems are ascribed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maol Sheachluinn Na N-Uirsgéal Ó HUiginn
Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hÚigínn () was an Irish bardic poet. Background Ó hÚigínn was a member of a well-known Irish family of bards or poets, based in Connacht. His surviving works include: * '' Foraire Uladh ar Aodh'' * ''Do bhriseas bearnaidh ar Bhrian'' * ''Each gan aradhain an fhearg'' See also * Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hUiccinn Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/ Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; angli ..., died 1490 * Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn * Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn External linksDo bhriseas bearnaidh ar Bhrian {{DEFAULTSORT:O hUiginn, Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgeal 13th-century Irish writers Medieval Irish poets Writers from County Mayo People from County Sligo People from County Galway Place of birth unknown Place of death unknown Year of birth unknown Year of dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From County Mayo
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Medieval Irish Poets
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Year Of Birth Missing
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Year Of Death Unknown
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