Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh (; ) was an Irish poet, a member of the

Ó Cobhthaigh Ó Cobhthaigh is a Gaelic-Irish surname. It is now generally Anglicised Cofer, Coffer, Copher, Coffey, Caughey, Coffee, Coffie, Coughey, Cauffey, Cauffy, Cauffie, Coffy, Coughay, Coffay, Coffeye and many more. Overview Ó Cobhthaigh was the name ...

clan of poets from County

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. He is known as the author of six extant poems: * '' Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean'' * ''Dlighidh liaigh leigheas a charad'', one hundred and forty verses, (edited by

Lambert McKenna Lambert McKenna S.J. ( ga, An tAthair Lámhbheartach Mac Cionnaith) (16 July 1870 – 27 December 1956) was a Jesuit priest and writer. He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Clontarf, and studied in Europe. He collected and edited rel ...

in 1949) * ''Mairg as dáileamh don digh bhróin'', on the death of Garret Nugent, Baron of Delvin (NLI MS G 992 (Nugent Manuscript) f.33v) * ''Do-ní clú áit oighreachda'' one hundred and twenty-four verses on William Nugent (MS G 992, f.34v) * ''Geall re hairlachd ainm barúin'' on the death of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin (MS G 992, f. 35v) * ''Séd fine teisd Thoirrdhealbhaigh'' (edited by Ó Cróinín) Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.

References

* ''Some Irish bardic poems lxxxx'', Lambert McKenna, ''Studies'' 38 (1949), 183–8. * ''A poem to Toirdhealbhach Luinneach Ó Néill'',

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954) is an Irish historian and authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, noted for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table. Ó Cróinín was Prof ...

, ''Éigse'' 16/1 (1975-6), 50–66. * ''The Tinnakill dunaire'', Anne Sullivan, ''Celtica'' 11, (1976), 214–28. * ''A poem to Aodh Buidhe and Alasdar Mac Domhnaill of Tinnakill'', Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Ossory, Laois and Leinster 2 (2006) * ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004. {{DEFAULTSORT:O Cobhthaigh, Muircheartach People from County Westmeath 16th-century Irish writers Irish-language poets 16th-century Irish poets People of Elizabethan Ireland