Séamus Ó Fearghail, aka James O Farrell,
Irish poet
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scribe
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, fl. 1711-1718.
Paul Walsh wrote of him in 1918:
:"James O Farrell we hear of from Tadhg O Neachtain, already referred to: ''O Fearghail fa dheóigh Séamus seang/a crich Longphortach aird Eireann/James O Farrell the graceful/from the high land of Longford in Erin.'' He wrote some folios, now in the British Museum, in 1711. There were other scribes later named O Farrell."
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Irish scribes
18th-century Irish-language poets
Writers from County Longford