Cellach húa Rúanada, Irish

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, died 1079. Cellachy held the post of

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and died in 1079. His obit is given in the

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as follows- "M1079.4 Ceallach Ua Ruanadha, chief poet of Ireland in his time, died." His obituary is given in the

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as follows- "U1079.1 Cellach ua Ruanada, chief ollav of Ireland, rested in peace." His obituary is given in the

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as follows- "Annal CS1079 Kalends. Cellach ua Ruanadha, ollamh of Ireland, dies." An Irish clavis or metrical tract has been preserved in the

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as well as in the eighteenth-century manuscript

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H 1 15, where it was copied from a fourteenth-century exemplar that seems now to be lost.

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incorporated this poem in his Mittelirische Verslehren as Verslehre IV. In the

it was ascribed to a certain Cellach .h. Ruan, who may be identical with Cellach hua Ruanada.

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* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/ 11th-century Irish poets 11th-century Irish writers 1079 deaths Year of birth unknown Irish male poets Irish-language writers {{Ireland-poet-stub