Life
Family members include Dálach, pupil of S. Colman [6th c.]; Aonghus
Ruadh Mac Chearbhaill Buidhe, Meath, fl.1300-50 [var. d.1350]; Cearbhall
of Ossory, fl.1590-1630, who wrote Eibhlín a Rúin, and Tochmarc
Fhearbhlaidhe, ed. Eoghan Ó Neachtáin (Dublin 1911);
also Diarmuid Mac Taidhg Mhic Diarmuda Oig, of Kerry, fl.1620-80; also
Gofraidh Fionn, of Cork, c.1320-87, who attended the feat of Uí
Maine, 1351; see Eleanor Knott, ‘Filidh Eirionn go haointeach,
William O’Kelly’s ‘Christmas Feast to the Poets of Ireland,
a.d. 1351’, in Eriu, V (Dublin 1911); also Lochlainn
Og, of Munster, c.550-1616, ‘Cáit a Ghabhadar Gaoidhil [Whither
have gone our Gaels]’, lamenting outlawry and flight of Catholic
gentry; see L. McKenna, SJ, ed., Dioghluim Dána (1938), Aithdioghluim Dána (1939), and Tomás Ó Rahile,
ed., Dánta Grádha, Love Poems 1350-1750,
with trans. by Robin Flower (Cork 1926). DIW ODNB
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Works
James Doan, trans., The Romance of Cearbhall and Fearbhlaigh (Mountrath:
Dolmen 1985); trans., Cearbhall Ó’Dálaigh: An Irish
Poet in Romance and Oral Tradition (NY: Garland 1990); Siobhan Ní
Laoire, ed., Bs. Cearbhaill agus Farbhlaide (Baile Átha
Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta. 1986).
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Criticism
James Doan, ‘Cearbhaill Ó Dálaigh as Archetypal Poet in Irish
Folk Tradition’, in Proceedings of the Harvard Colloquium,
1 (1981), pp.77-83; Doan, ‘Cearbhaill Ó Dálaigh as
Craftsman and Trickster’, in Béaloideas, 50 (1982),
pp.54-89; Doan, ‘Cearbhaill Ó Dálaigh as Lover and
Tragic Hero’, in Béaloideas, 51 (1983), pp.11-30; Doan,
‘The Ó Dálaigh Family of Bardic Poets 1139-1691’,
in Éire-Ireland, 20 (1985), 19-31; Doan, ‘The folksong
Tradition of Cearbhaill Ó Dálaigh’, in Folklore,
96 (1985), pp.67-86; Alan Harrison, An Chrosanacht (Baile Átha
Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta 1962); Seosamh Watson, ed., Mac na
Míchomhairle (Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar
Tta 1979).
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References
Dictionary of National Biography lists variant death date
of 1350.
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Notes
Family: Cearbhall Buidhe O’Dalaigh (d.1245); Cearbhall Fionn O’Dalaigh;
Cearbhall Breifneach O’Dalaigh; Cearbhall O’Dalaigh, d.1404,
of Finyvara, Co. Clare; Cearbhall O’Dalaigh, fl. 1590-1640; father
and son [listed by James Doan].
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