Aindrias Mac Cruitín (c. 1650 – c.1738) was a
Gaelic
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Irish poet
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Biography
A member of the
Mac Cruitín bard
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ic family, Aindrias was born at Moyglass,
Milltown Malbay
Milltown Malbay (), also Miltown Malbay, is a town in the west of County Clare, Ireland, near Spanish Point, County Clare, Spanish Point. The population was 921 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census.
Name
There is a townland on the souther ...
,
County Clare
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, where he was educated and spent much of his life. He worked as a
teacher
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and
scribe
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, some
dozen
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manuscripts in his hand surviving. He worked for a Dr. Brian Ó Lochlainn in 1727, and wrote a number of poems for the family.
In his old age, he wrote his best-known poem, on the subject of the passing of the old Gaelic order, and with it, his patrons and his livelihood.
He died in 1738, and was buried in his family burying-place in the churchyard of Kilfarboy, near Milltown Malbay in Clare.
Family
Other members of his family included:
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Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín
Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín, Irish musician, died 1405.
The Annals of Ulster note his death:
''U1405.1 Gilla-Duibin Mac Cruitin died this year, namely, the ollam of Ua Briain, to wit, one eminent in music and in history and in literary distinction ...
, musician, died 1405.
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Donnchadh Mac Cruitín, scribe, fl. 1468.
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Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín
Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (Irish pronunciation: /eː bˠi mˠakɾˠəˈtʲiːnʲ/; Classical Irish: Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín, ) (1680–1755) was an Irish poet, tutor, and soldier.
Biography
Mac Cruitín was a descendant of a bardic family of T ...
, poet and soldier, 1680–1775.
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Seamus Mac Cruitín, poet, 1815–1870.
References
;Attribution
External links
* http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/clare_poets/aindrias_maccuirtin.htm
* http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/bardic_poem/textual_notes.htm
* https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsAaXKLGvYC&pg=PA331
* http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mac/M-Cruitin_A/life.htm
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* https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/Donn_na_Duimhche.pdf
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1650s births
1775 deaths
17th-century Irish-language poets
Irish Jacobites
18th-century Irish-language poets
People from Milltown Malbay