Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh (; ) was an Irish poet, a member of the
Ó Cobhthaigh
Ó Cobhthaigh is a Gaels, Gaelic-Irish surname, generally Anglicised as Coffey, Cofer, Coffer, Copher, Caughey, Coffee, Coffie, Coughey, Cauffey, Cauffy, Cauffie, Coffy, Coughay, Coffay, Coffeye, Couhig and many more.
Overview
Ó Cobhthaigh was t ...
clan of poets from County
Westmeath
County Westmeath (; or simply ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It formed part of the historic Kingdom of ...
. He is known as the author of six extant poems:
* ''
Le dÃs cuirthear clú Laighean''
* ''Dlighidh liaigh leigheas a charad'', one hundred and forty verses, (edited by
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. ...
in 1949)
* ''Mairg as dáileamh don digh bhróin'', on the death of Garret Nugent, Baron of Delvin (NLI MS G 992 (Nugent Manuscript) f.33v)
* ''Do-nà clú áit oighreachda'' one hundred and twenty-four verses on William Nugent (MS G 992, f.34v)
* ''Geall re hairlachd ainm barúin'' on the death of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin (MS G 992, f. 35v)
* ''Séd fine teisd Thoirrdhealbhaigh'' (edited by Ó CróinÃn)
Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.
References
* ''Some Irish bardic poems lxxxx'', Lambert McKenna, ''Studies'' 38 (1949), 183–8.
* ''A poem to Toirdhealbhach Luinneach Ó Néill'',
Dáibhà Ó CróinÃn, ''Éigse'' 16/1 (1975-6), 50–66.
* ''The Tinnakill dunaire'', Anne Sullivan, ''Celtica'' 11, (1976), 214–28.
* ''A poem to Aodh Buidhe and Alasdar Mac Domhnaill of Tinnakill'', Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Ossory, Laois and Leinster 2 (2006)
* ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.
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Writers from County Westmeath
16th-century Irish-language poets
People of Elizabethan Ireland