Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh (known as "The Pious"), was an Irish

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, fl. 1520–1570. Thought to have been born in

County Meath County Meath ( ; or simply , ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is bordered by County Dublin to the southeast, County ...

, Aonghus Fionn was the head of the branch of the

Ó Dálaigh The Ó Dálaigh () were a learned Irish Bardic poetry, bardic family who first came to prominence early in the 12th century, when Cú Connacht Ó Dálaigh was described as "The first ''Ollamh'' of poetry in all Ireland" (''ollamh'' is the title g ...

family who were poets to the MacCarthy of Desmond. Only three of his poems are extant: ''Cionnus dhíolfad mo luach leighis?'', ''Grian na Maighdean Máthair Dé'' and ''Ná déana díomas, a dhuine''.

References

* ''Dioghluim Dána'', Láimhbheartach Mac Cionnaith

Lambert McKenna Lambert McKenna S.J. ( (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 religious and folk poetry in the Irish language. ...

(ed),

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

, Oifig an tSoláthair overnment Publication Office 1938, pp. 415–419 * ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

Edward MacLysaght Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Pat ...

, 1978.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/itbardic.html#athairne * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:O Dalaigh, Aongus Fionn 16th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Meath Year of birth unknown Irish religious writers Year of death unknown People of Elizabethan Ireland