Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh (known as "The Pious"), was an

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, fl. 1520–1570. Thought to have been born in

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, Aonghus Fionn was the head of the branch of the Ó Dálaigh family who were poets to the MacCarthy of Desmond. Only three of his poems are extant: ''Cionnus dhíolfad mo luach leighis?'', ''Grian na Maighdean Máthair Dé'' and ''Ná déana díomas, a dhuine''.

References

* ''Dioghluim Dána'', Láimhbheartach Mac Cionnaith

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, 1978.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/itbardic.html#athairne * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:O Dalaigh, Aongus Fionn 16th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Meath 1520 births Irish religious writers Year of death missing People of Elizabethan Ireland