Domhnall Ó hÚigínn ( fl. 1574) was an Irish poet and teacher. Domhnall was a member of the same clan as

Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn Tadhg (, ), (pronunciations given for the name ''Tadgh'' separately from those for the slang/pejorative ''Teague''.) commonly misspelled "Taig" or "Teague", is an Irish and Scottish Gaelic masculine name that was very common when the Goidelic l ...

(1550–1591) and the

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 ...

of ''

Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe ''Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe'', or Book of the Clandeboy O'Neill's, is the title accorded to a dunaire or poem-book of the Clandeboye branch of the O'Neill dynasty. It was written at the request of Cormac Ó Neill by the scribe Ruairí Ó hU ...

'' (fl. 1680). This branch of the Uí hÚigínn ran a school of poetry at Kilclooney, near

Milltown, County Galway Milltown () is a small village in County Galway, Ireland. It is situated on the banks of the River Clare, 47 km from Galway City, 11 km from Tuam on the N17 road to Sligo. History The parish of Milltown is made up of the two civil p ...

. They were a branch of the Uí hÚigínn Magheny,

County Sligo County Sligo ( , gle, Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local ...

. They had originally settled there at the request of Brian mac Domhnaill Ó Conchobhair Sligo (ruled 1403–1440).

The Book of the Burkes The ''Book of the de Burgos'' or ''Book of the Burkes'' ( ga, Leabhar na Búrca; la, Liber Burgensis) is a late 16th-century Gaelic illuminated manuscript held by the Library of Trinity College Dublin as MS 1440, ''Historia et Genealogia Famili ...

is a surviving manuscript, created by

, and Domhnall's son, Ruaidhrí Ó hÚigínn. Domhnall himself is listed as in possession of Kilclooney castle in 1575, and there he conducted ''a well renowned bardic school ... possibly under the patronage of the local O'Connors ... One bardic poem of Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn ... informs us that Ulster students came to study at Kilclooney. Scottish students were also reputed to have attended there.''

References

* ''Milltown Sketches'', Molloy, 1995 {{DEFAULTSORT:O Huiginn, Domhnall People from County Galway 16th-century Irish writers Irish-language poets