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Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire (''
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'' 1637) was an Irish
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Background

Tuileagna was a member of the
Ó Maolconaire Ó Maolchonaire, more properly Ó Maol Chonaire, sometimes Ó Mhaoilchonaire, Ó Maolconaire, etc., was the surname of a family of professional poets and historians in medieval Ireland. Traditionally it would have been spelled without the 'h', but ...
Brehon family, but it has proved difficult for researchers to uncover more detail about him. His antagonist,
Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, sometimes Fearfeasa O'Mulconry and other variations, ( fl. 1630s) was an Irish chronicler who is primarily known as the co-compiler and scribe of the ''Annals of the Four Masters''. Family background Ó Maol Chonair ...
, said in a poem that his father's name was Seanchán. He might be identified with the Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire who was a student at the
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in 1625, or a student at the Irish College at Salamanca in April 1610, who was aged about twenty-five. He is usually thought to have been the Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire recorded living in
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some years later. In March 1658, a man of that name authenticated a genealogical transcript, identifying himself as ''seancha coitcheann Éireann''/''general historian of Ireland.'' In September 1659, the same man transcribed a
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and prosody for Father
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, OFM, indicating that the man in Madrid had links with the Irish Franciscans, perhaps himself being a member of the order. A later Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire added a note to Laud Misc 610 in
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, 1673, but his identity is unknown. An earlier
Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire ( fl. 1585) was an Irish poet. A member of the Ó Maolconaire bardic family of Connacht, Tuileagna is known from a number of extant works, including ''Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann'', addressed to Sir Nicholas Wals ...
, was a
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alive about 1585.


Dispute with the Four Masters

In 1637, upon Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's return to
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with the finished autograph of 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 ...
, Tuileagna publicly expressed concerns on four points of detail in ''Genalogiae regum et sanctorum Hiberniae'' and the Four Masters text, stating that the points cast a slur on the status of
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. He furthermore stated that Conchobhar Mac Bruaideadha withdrew his approbation in public following a general chapter of the Franciscans in
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in 1638, while stating that Flan Mac Aodhagáin had temporarily withdrawn his approbation in 1637 until the disputed points were resolved. Discussion of the matter continued after Ó Cléirigh's death in 1643, and in part led to the delay in the publication of the work. Two of the Masters,
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh ( fl. 1624–1664) was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Life and work Ó Cléirigh was a son of Diarmaid Ó Cléirigh, and thus a third-cousin once removed to Brother Mích ...
and
Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, sometimes Fearfeasa O'Mulconry and other variations, ( fl. 1630s) was an Irish chronicler who is primarily known as the co-compiler and scribe of the ''Annals of the Four Masters''. Family background Ó Maol Chonair ...
, wrote responses in prose and verse to Tuileagna, though that of Cú Choigcríche has not survived. Bernadette Cunningham has noted "That the Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire who criticized Ó Cléirigh's work was a Franciscan would have made it relatively easy for him to have the matter of the accuracy of AFM and associated texts raised at no less than three formal
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of the order - at Thomond (1638),
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(1641) and Dublin." (p. 266) She furthermore states: (p. 266) Tuileagna did not offer to revise the text himself, instead proposing that the Reverend Brian Flann Mac Aodhagáin and others assess it.


Publication delay

Tuileagna's views held enough influence within the Irish Franciscan community to delay publication. While manuscripts of the Annals circulated for generations, it was only in 1846 that a version translated into English was published by
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, and only as far as 1171.
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edited the six volumes that comprised the full text published in the 1850s.


References

* ''The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century,'' p. 167, 260, 263–7, 299, Bernadette Cunningham, Four Courts Press, 2010. . {{DEFAULTSORT:O Maol Chonaire, Tuileagna 17th-century Irish people People from County Roscommon Irish writers 17th-century Irish historians Irish translators Irish-language writers