Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean ("Justice of Connacht on the battle of Leinster") is a fourteenth-century Irish poem.
Katherine Simms
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.
In the early Christ ...
(1990) "Images of Warfare in Bardic Poetry", ''Celtica'' 21.
It is an address to
Aedh Ó Conchobair
Hugh McOwen O'Conor (Irish: ''Aedh mac Eoghan Ó Conchobair'') was king of Connacht in late medieval Ireland. He is the person addressed in the poem '' Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean'' and in the poem ''An tu aris a raith Theamhrach'' by Aon ...
, King of Connacht (d. 1309 and is thought to be "the earliest extant
bardic poem containing an 'arming the hero' sequence with reference to the new Norman style of arms.'
It is of a piece with ''
An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?'', composed nearly four hundred years later.
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Irish literature
Irish poems
Texts in Irish
Early Irish literature
Irish-language literature
Medieval poetry
O'Conor dynasty
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