Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (c. 1540 – c. 1630) was an Irish poet.

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Fear Flatha

Ó Gnímh Ó Gnímh was the surname of an Irish brehon family. The Ó Gnímh family were based at Larne, County Antrim, and were hereditary poets for the O'Neill's and MacDonalds. The surname is now generally rendered as Agnew. Notable people with the ...

was a member of a

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learned family based at

Larne Larne (, , the name of a Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic territory)Larne/Latharna
Placenames Database of Ireland. is a to ...

, County Antrim, who was

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 ...

for the O'Neills of Clannaboy. Known as O'Gnive in English, among his best known poems is "A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!". His known surviving poems include: * ''A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!'' * ''Beannacht ar anmain Éireann'' * ''Cuimseach sin, a Fhearghail Óig'' * ''Éireannaigh féin fionnLochlannaigh'' * ''Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais'' * ''Tairnig éigse fhuinn Gaoidheal'' * ''Buaidhreadh cóighidh caoi Eanmhná'' * ''Mo-ghéanar cheanglas cumann bainríoghna'' Thomas Kinsella stated that: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century". Two of Ó Gnímh's poems, ''After the Flight of the Earls'' and ''The Passing of the Poets'', are featured on pages 162–164 of ''The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse'', published in 1986. A later member of the family,

Eoin Ó Gnímh Eoin Ó Gnímh was an Irish poet and manuscript collector, fl. December 1699. Ó Gnímh was a member of a hereditary learned family based at Larne, County Antrim, who had been bard for the O'Neills. He was responsible for preserving a numbe ...

(fl. December 1699), preserved a number of

manuscripts A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has c ...

compiled or collected by

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (), also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius ( fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, histo ...

, Dublin, 1970, pp. 112–114 *"Beannacht ar anmain Éireann", ''Irish Bardic Poetry'', ed. Osborn Bergin, Dublin, 1970, pp. 115–117 *"A dhuine chuirios an crann", ''Irish Bardic Poetry'', ed. Osborn Bergin, Dublin, 1970, 118-119 *"Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais", ''Irish Bardic Poetry'', ed. Osborn Bergin, Dublin, 1970, pp. 120–123 *"Mo-ghéanar cheanglas cumann bainríoghna", ''Aithdioghluim Dána'', ed. Lambert McKenna, Dublin, 1939, pp. 274–275 *''Irish Verse: An Anthology'', ed. Bob Blaisdell, 2002, pp. 26–29

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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050321012002/http://www.standingstones.com/harppoem2.html Standingstones.com - On a Blind Harper—I - Flatha Ó Gnímh(archived 2005) {{DEFAULTSORT:O Gnimh, Fear Flatha 1540s births 1630s deaths 17th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Antrim People from Larne

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