Tadhg Ó Cobhthaigh (

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1554.) was an Irish poet.

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 ...

was a member of a

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ic family based in what is now

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 ...

. All that is known of his parents is that his father's name was Aedh. Among his know surviving works is ''Crann seoil na cruinne an chroch naomtha'' (''The holy cross is the mast of the world'') and a lament of one hundred verses on the death of King of Uí Failghe, Brian mac Cathaoir Ó Conchubhair Fáilghe (reigned c. 1525-c. 1556). A third poem - ''Cia re ccuirfinn sed suirghe'' - in praise of Manus mac Aodh Dubh

Ó Domhnaill The O'Donnell dynasty ( or ''Ó Domhnaill,'' ''Ó Doṁnaill'' ''or Ua Domaill;'' meaning "descendant of Dónal") were the dominant Irish clan of the kingdom of Tyrconnell in Ulster in the north of medieval and early modern Ireland. Naming c ...

is ascribed to him. It consists of twenty

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s, which won him the gift of a

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for each stanza from Ó Domhnaill. He appears to be the same man that Captain

Francis O'Neill Francis O'Neill (; August 28, 1848 – January 26, 1936) was an Irish-born American police officer and collector of Irish traditional music. His biographer Nicholas Carolan referred to him as "the greatest individual influence on the evolution ...

, apparently incorrectly, associates with

Geoffrey Keating Geoffrey Keating (; – ) was an Irish historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became a Catholic priest and a poet. Biography It was generally believed unt ...

(c.1569-1643). Or perhaps a latter man of the same name. O'Neill attributes the following verses to Keating, concerning Ó Cobhthaigh: Who is the artist by whom the cruit is player? By whom the anguish of the envenomed spear’s recent would is healed, through the sweet-voiced sound of the sounding-board, like the sweet~streamed peal of the organ? Who is it that plays the enchanting music that dispels all the ills that man is heir to? Tadhg O’Cobthaigh of beauteous form, - The chief-beguiler of women, The intelligent concordance of all difficult tunes, The thrills of music and of harmony.

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* ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.

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* http://billhaneman.ie/IMM/IMM-II.html {{DEFAULTSORT:OCobhthaigh, Tadhg Musicians from County Westmeath 16th-century Irish-language poets Irish male harpists Writers from County Westmeath 16th-century Irish harpists 16th-century Irish male musicians 16th-century Irish male writers

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