Teige Mac Con Midhe,
Irish
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poet and writer, died in
1493
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Mac Con Midhe
Mac Con Midhe was the name of a family of poets in Gaelic Ireland. The name is also now rendered as Mac Namee, McNamee, Conmee, and Conway.
Overview
There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the River Foyle in the dean ...
was a member of an Irish
brehon
Brehon ( ga, breitheamh, ) is a term for a historical arbitration, mediative and judicial role in Gaelic culture. Brehons were part of the system of Early Irish law, which was also simply called "Brehon law". Brehons were judges, close in import ...
family. According to the
Annals of the Four Masters
The ''Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland'' ( ga, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) or the ''Annals of the Four Masters'' (''Annála na gCeithre Máistrí'') are chronicles of medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Deluge, dated as 2,24 ...
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* ''M1493.17 Mac Namee, i.e. Teige, the son of Conor Roe, son of Eachmarcach, an eminent poet and a good scholar, was slain by a labourer, one of his own people. i.e. the son of O'Clumhain.''
See also
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Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe
Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe, or Gilbride McNamee () was an Irish poet.
Background and family
Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe was hereditary Ollamh to the Cenél nEógain. The '' Ceart Uí Néill'', a late medieval document dealing with the rights a ...
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fl. 1210?–1272?)
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Brian Mac Con Midhe
Brian Mac Con Midhe, Irish poet and writer, fl 1590s.
A son of Aonghus Mac Con Midhe, Brian was a member of an Irish brehon family, and chief poet to Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
See also
* Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe ( fl. 1210?–1272?)
* Teig ...
, chief poet to
Turlough Luineach O'Neill
Sir Turlough Lynagh O'Neill (Irish: ''Sir Toirdhealbhach Luineach mac Néill Chonnalaigh Ó Néill''; 1532 – September, 1595) was an Irish Gaelic lord of Tír Eoghain in early modern Ireland. He was inaugurated upon Shane O’Neill’s death, ...
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Cormac Mac Con Midhe
Cormac Mac Con Midhe, a.k.a. Cormac mac Cearbhaill Mac Con Midhe (died 1627) was an early Modern Irish poet.
Manuscript H.5.6, held at Trinity College, Dublin, contains a poem of 24 stanzas apparently written by Mac Con Midhe for Toirealach Ó N ...
(d.1627
References
* ''Glimpses of Gaelic Ireland,'', 33–64, G. Murphy, Dublin, 1948.
* ''Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge: Treoirliosta,''
Padraig de Brún, Dublin, 1988.
* ''Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy,'' by Diarmaid Ó Diobhlin, in ''Tyrone: History and Society,'' 403–432, ed. Charles Dillon and Henry A. Jefferies, Geography Publications, Dublin, 2000. .
* ''Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia", edited by Seán Duffy, Dublin, 2004.
External links
* http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/family.htm?FamilyId=997
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Medieval Irish poets
People from County Tyrone
15th-century Irish poets
Irish male poets