Éamonn de Bhál (

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early 19th century) was an Irish poet. A native of

County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are ...

, de Bhál was a native Irish speaker,

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. He played an important role in the recording and preservation of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's '' Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire'', which he obtained from Sean nos singer

Nóra Ní Shíndile Nóra Ní Shíndile, was an Irish singer (see Keening), active in the late 1790s/early 1800s. Ní Shíndile was a native of Millstreet, County Cork and a professional keener in the late 1790s/early 1800s. About 1800, the scribe A scribe is ...

. Copies of his work are held in the National Library of Ireland.

External links

* http://sources.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=%22%20De%20Bh%C3%A1l,%20%C3%89amonn%22&type=subject

References

* ''Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766:A fatal attachment'', p. 193,

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, Four Courts Press, 2001, 2004. . {{DEFAULTSORT:De Bhal, Eamonn Irish scribes Irish Jacobites 19th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Cork