Éamonn de Bhál (

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

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, de Bhál was a native Irish speaker,

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and

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. He played an important role in the recording and preservation of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's ''

Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or the ''Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire, Arthur O' Leary'' is an Irish Language, Irish Keening, keen composed in the main by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, a member of the Gaelic gentry in the 18th century, who was born in C ...

'', 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 and poet, Éamon ...

. Copies of his work are held in the

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