Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (
fl. 1147) was a Gaelic
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
poet.
Biography
Closely associated with
Tighearnán Ua Ruairc, King of
Bréifne, he was attached to the monastery of
Daminis, and possibly to the church of
Ard Brecáin, apparently been a cleric.
His two famous compositions are ''
Éri óg inis na náem'' and the
Banshenchas.
The
Ó Caiside family later became – from the 14th century – prominent in
Fermanagh
Historically, Fermanagh ( ga, Fir Manach), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of a ...
, and many of them became hereditary doctors to the Maguire chieftains.
His known compositions are:
* ''Éri óg inis na náem''
* The ''
Banshenchas'' (''Ádam óenathair na ndóene'')
* Eight poems in the lives of St. Mo Laisse and M'Áedóc
** ''Ca lion mionn ag Maodhócc''
** ''Cert Maodhócc ar shluagh Mhancach''
** ''Comhroinn Maodhócc, fa mór modh''
** ''Eittirbretha Maodhócc min''
** ''Uasal an mac, mac Setna''
** ''Cia is fearr cairt ar dháil mláisi''
** ''Cia thairngir mlaisi ria theacht''
** ''Molaisi eolach na heagna''
* ''Cuibdea comanmann na rig''
* ''Sé rígh déag Eoghain anall''
References
* ''The Prose Banshenchas'', unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, UCG, 1980.
* ''The Manuscript Tradition of the Banshenchas,'' ''Éiru'' 33 (1982) 109-35
* ''An Bansheanchas,'' ''Léachtaí Cholm Cille'' xii: Na mná sa litríocht, eag. P. Ó Fiannachta (Maigh Nuad, 1982), 5-29.
* ''Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside'', by Kevin Murray, in ''Cín Chille Cúile'', ed. J. Carey, M. Herbert and K. Murray (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004), 150–162.
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12th-century Irish poets
People from County Meath
People from County Fermanagh
12th-century Irish historians
Irish religious writers
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Irish male poets
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