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Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (Irish pronunciation: /eː bˠi mˠakɾˠəˈtʲiːnʲ/;
Classical Irish Early Modern Irish () represented a transition between Middle Irish and Modern Irish. Its literary form, Classical Gaelic, was used in Ireland and Scotland from the 13th to the 18th century. Classical Gaelic Classical Gaelic or Classical Irish ( ...
: Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín, ) (1680–1755) was an Irish poet, tutor, and soldier.


Biography

Mac Cruitín was a descendant of a
bard In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's a ...
ic family of
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. Other members of his family included the musician,
Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín, Irish musician, died 1405. The Annals of Ulster note his death: ''U1405.1 Gilla-Duibin Mac Cruitin died this year, namely, the ollam of Ua Briain, to wit, one eminent in music and in history and in literary distinction ...
(died 1405), and the poets Aindrias Mac Cruitín (c.1650-c.1738) and Seamus Mac Cruitín (1815–1870). He lived about ten years in Dublin where he worked with
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on Irish sources for a history of Ireland and another ten years on the Continent, mostly at
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and Paris. While in Flanders he published an Irish grammar and joined Lord Clare's regiment of the Irish Brigade for a short time. In Paris he published an English-Irish dictionary in 1732 which included a poem by him which is the only example of a poem published in Irish in the Eighteenth-century. He returned to Ireland in 1738 where he taught in Limerick and then his native Clare, and established a school there. Both churchyards at Kilmacreehy and Kilvoydane have been identified as the place where he is buried


Works

* "
A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland
'' which tracks both real and mythological events in Irish history from the steppes of
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to the Norman Invasion. * ''" The elements of the Irish language grammatically explained in English"'' *
''Ar phósadh Isibeal''
(Poem)


Legacy

* He is mentioned in th
''Leabhar Mumhaineach''
twice. * T. F. O'Rahilly mentions him in "
Notes on the Poets of Clare
'"


See also

*
Piaras Feiritéar Piaras Feiritéar (; 1600 – 1653), or Pierce Ferriter, was an Irish clan Chief, and poet. Although best known for his many works of Bardic poetry in the Irish language, Feiritéar is also a widely revered folk hero in the Dingle Peninsula for ...
*
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625 – January 1698) was a 17th-century Irish language Irish poetry, poet who was probably received his training in a Bard, Bardic school . He lived through a period of change in Irish history, and his work reflects the de ...
*
Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna (c. 1680 – 1756; Anglicised as ''Yellow-haired Charles McElgunn'') was an Irish poet. Biography Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna is one of the four most prominent south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the sevent ...
*
Aogán Ó Rathaille Aodhagán Ó RathailleVariant Irish spellings of his name include ''Aogán'' and ''Ua Rathaille'' or Egan O'Rahilly (c.1670–1726), was an Irish language poet. He is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling. Early life It is tho ...
* Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta *
Art Mac Cumhaigh Art Mac Cumhaigh (or Mac Cobhthaigh) (c. 1738–1773), or Art McCooey, was among the most celebrated of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century. He was part of the Kingdom of Oriel, Airgíalla tradition of poetry and ...
*
Seán Clárach Mac Dónaill Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; angli ...
*
Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin (174829 June 1784), anglicized as Owen Roe O'Sullivan ("Red Owen"), was an Irish poet. He is known as one of the last great Gaelic poets. A recent anthology of Irish-language poetry speaks of his "extremely musical" p ...
*
Curtin (Surname) Curtin is a surname which is most common in the Munster, Province of Munster in Ireland. It takes several variant forms transliterated from the Irish language, such as: ''Mac Cruitín'', ''Mac Curtain'' or ''Ó Cruitin'', most of which are anglic ...


References

* ''Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment'', p. 137, 151, 152, 154, 162, 163, 250, 260, 261,
Éamonn Ó Ciardha Éamonn Ó Ciardha is an Irish historian and writer. Biography Ó Ciardha is a native of Scotshouse, a village in the Barony of Dartree in the west of County Monaghan. Townlands.ie: Barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. https://www.townlands.ie/mo ...
,
Four Courts Press Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, who died in February 2009, its early publications were primarily theological, notably ...
, 2001, 2004.


External links

* http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/bardic/aodh_mac_cruitin.htm * http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/ar_phosadh.htm * https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsAaXKLGvYC&pg=PA331 * http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mac/M-Cruitin_AB/life.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Cruitin, Aodh Bui 1680 births 1775 deaths Irish soldiers Irish Jacobites 18th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Clare 18th-century Irish military personnel