Fiachra Mac Brádaigh (–) was an Irish poet and

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...

, Mac Brádaigh was a descendant of one of the leading families of

Breifne The Kingdom of Breifne or Bréifne (), anglicized as Breffny, was a medieval overkingdom in Gaelic Ireland. It comprised what is now County Leitrim, County Cavan and parts of neighbouring counties, and corresponds roughly to the Roman Catho ...

. A Gaelic poet and one of the finest products of, and teachers in, the hedge schools before the introduction of formal education. He is buried in Dunsandle in

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, his adopted home. His work has been described by

Séamus P. Ó Mórdha Séamus P. Ó Mórdha (8 October 1915 – 12 February 2005) was an Irish teacher and historian. A native of Scotshouse in County Monaghan, and professor of Irish at St Patrick's College, Dublin, St. Patrick's College in Drumcondra, Dublin, fro ...

"He composed an Aisling, a Seachrán and a Faoistin as was expected of an 18th century poet but he invested each of them with a something of the exuberance and liveliness of his own personality. Some of the Northern Aislingí that have come down to us could have been written by any one of half a dozen poets but not so Mac Brádaigh. He puts the stamp of his own locality and of his own individuality on his compositions."

References

* ''Mac Brádaigh, Fiachra (c.1690–c.1760)'', by

Nollaig Ó Muraíle Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar. He published an edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's ''Leabhar na nGenealach'' in 2004. He was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy in 2009. Life and career A native of Knock, County Mayo, Ó Muraíle ...

, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, 436 words.

External links

* https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/17358 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/30097957 * https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1335 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Bradaigh, Fiachra Irish scribes 18th-century Irish-language poets Writers from County Cavan Writers from County Galway Year of birth uncertain