Fear Flatha Ó GnÃmh (1540—1630)
was an Irish poet.
Life
Fear Flatha
Ó GnÃmh was a member of a
hereditary
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic inform ...
learned family based at
Larne, County Antrim, who was
bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise t ...
for the O'Neills. His known surviving poems are
* ''A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!''
* ''Beannacht ar anmain Éireann''
* ''Cuimseach sin, a Fhearghail Óig''
* ''Éireannaigh féin fionnLochlannaigh''
* ''Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais''
* ''Tairnig éigse fhuinn Gaoidheal''
* ''Buaidhreadh cóighidh caoi Eanmhná ''
Kinsella remarks: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century." Two of his poems, ''After the Flight of the Earls'' and ''The Passing of the Poets'' are featured on pages 162–164 of ''The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse'', published in 1986.
A later member of the family,
Eoin Ó GnÃmh (fl. December 1699), would preserve a number of
manuscripts
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in ...
compiled or collected by
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.
See also
*
Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa
Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (1567–1617) was a well-known Irish bardic poet.
Life
A native of Ulster, born probably in (Ballyhoo), in what is now County Fermanagh, Ó hÉoghusa was employed for much of his life by the Mág Uidhir (Maguire) chiefs of ...
*
Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin
Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin (; ), was an early modern Irish poet.
Ó hIfearnáin was living in the Shronell district of County Tipperary in the late 16th century, and wrote poems on the decline of the profession of poetry. His best-known poem, ...
References
* ''The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse'', p. 400, ed., with translations, by
Thomas Kinsella, Oxford University Press, 1986.
* ''The Celebrated Antiquary'', p. 196,
Nollaig Ó MuraÃle,
Maynooth, 1996.
* ''A Bardic Miscellany: Five Hundred Bardic poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries'', edited by Damian McManus and Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Trinity Irish Studies, Dublin, 2010.
External links
* http://celt.ucc.ie/bardic.html
Fear Flatha Ó GnÃmhat ricorso.net
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Irish-language poets
People from County Antrim
17th-century Irish writers