Gilla Cóemáin mac Gilla Samthainde was a

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Irish poet ( fl. 1072). He was author of ''Annálad anall uile'', a poem of fifty-eight

quatrains A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Persia, Ancient India, Ancient Gree ...

, and a number of other works. Some of his works were incorporated into

Lebor Gabála Érenn ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"), known in English as ''The Book of Invasions'', is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish fro ...

References

* ''Gilla Cóemáin's chronological poem'', in ''The tripartite Life of Patrick'' (ed. and trans. by

Whitley Stokes Whitley Stokes, CSI, CIE, FBA (28 February 1830 – 13 April 1909) was an Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar. Background He was a son of William Stokes (1804–1878), and a grandson of Whitley Stokes the physician and anti-Malthusian (1763� ...

, London, 1887. * ''

Book of Leinster The Book of Leinster ( mga, Lebor Laignech , LL) is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled c. 1160 and now kept in Trinity College, Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18 (cat. 1339). It was formerly known as the ''Lebor na Nuachongbála'' "Book ...

'' iii, pp. 496–503, Dublin, 1957. * ''Three poems ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: a critical edition'', DPhil diss (Oxford, 1996), Dr. Peter J. Smith. * ''Three Poems Ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: A Critical Edition of the Work of an Eleventh-Century Irish Scholar'', Peter J. Smith, Münster, 2008. * ''Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century'',

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, ''Peritia'' 12, 1996. Irish scribes Medieval European scribes 11th-century Irish poets Irish male poets Irish-language writers {{Ireland-poet-stub