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friar
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poet
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Ó Máille, called "the troubled friar" by Brien O'Rourke, was a native of
Partry
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County Mayo
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. He was expelled from a
seminary
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"for rakish behaviour" by his cousin, an Athair Maolmhuire Ó Máille. This event inspired the first of two songs of his, both titled ''Leaici an Chuil Bhain''.
He married a Widow Badger who ran an inn near Partry, but she was troubled by the unseemingly attention he paid to other women. Few of his poems and songs have survived.
References
* ''County Mayo in Gaelic Folksong'',
Brian O'Rourke
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