Ferdomhnach Dall,

Lector Lector is Latin for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages it takes various forms, as either a development or a loan, such as french: lecteur, en, lector, pl, lektor and russian: лектор. It has various specialized uses. ...

Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

and

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, died 1110. The

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for 1110 list the death of three Irish churchmen, including:

Ferdomhnach Dall fer leiginn Cille Dara .i. sui cruitirechta

Ferdomnach the blind, lector of Cell Dara, i.e. a master of harping

Ferdomhnach held the important post of ''fer leiginn'' (

lector Lector is Latin for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages it takes various forms, as either a development or a loan, such as french: lecteur, en, lector, pl, lektor and russian: лектор. It has various specialized uses. ...

), an office associated with men such as Áed Ua Forréid (d. 1056) and

Áed Ua Crimthainn Áed Ua Crimthainn (''fl.'' 12th century), also called Áed mac Crimthainn, was abbot and coarb of Terryglass (), near Lough Derg in County Tipperary, Ireland. He was the principal scribe of the Book of Leinster ( mga, Lebar na Núachongbhála) ...

( fl. 12th century), though it was also understood in the sense of a ''man of learning''. He is perhaps the earliest attested Irish musician noted by name, specifically a '' sui cruitirechta''/''a master of harping''.

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Ann Buckley Ann Buckley is an Irish musicologist, born in Dublin. Buckley studied at University College Cork (B.Mus., 1971; M.A. 1972), Doctoraal (University of Amsterdam, 1976) and a Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') ...

: "Musical Instruments in Ireland 9th–14th Centuries: A Review of the Organological Evidence", in: ''Musicology in Ireland'' (= ''Irish Musical Studies'' vol. 1), ed. G. Gillen & H. White (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 13–57. *

: "Music and Musicians in Medieval Irish Society", in: ''Early Music'' 28 (2000) 2, pp. 165–190. *

: "Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland", in: ''A New History of Ireland'' vol. 1, ed. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 744–813.

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*http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A/index.html *http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/index.html *http://www.irishharp.org/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferdomhnach Dall 1110 deaths 11th-century Irish priests 12th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Medieval Irish musicians Irish harpists Medieval Gaels from Ireland Year of birth unknown Musicians from County Kildare Irish male harpists Christian clergy from County Kildare None of Buckley's papers, given as sources, mention Ferdomhnach, Ferdomnach, cruitirechta (although there is some discussion of the cruit in "Musical Instruments"),leiginn, or lectors. I was unable to find a reference on the Irish Harp site for any of these keywords.

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