Séamus Ó Fearghail, aka James O Farrell, Irish

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, fl. 1711-1718.

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wrote of him in 1918: :"James O Farrell we hear of from Tadhg O Neachtain, already referred to: ''O Fearghail fa dheóigh Séamus seang/a crich Longphortach aird Eireann/James O Farrell the graceful/from the high land of Longford in Erin.'' He wrote some folios, now in the British Museum, in 1711. There were other scribes later named O Farrell."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:O Fearghail, Seamus Irish scribes 18th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Longford

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