Seán Mór Ó
Dubhagáin
Life
fl.1350-?1372 [ODugan]; member of bardic family at Baile Uí Dhubhagáin, nr. Loughrea, Co. Galway; ollamh to the OKellys, author of vast topographical poem on distribution of clans and septs at the time of the Norman invasion, covering fully Ulster, Connacht, and Meath [var. Leinster and Munster: ODNB], and completed by Giolla-na-Naomh Ó Huidhrin in 1420; |
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made pilgrimage to St. Columbas tomb and retired to monastery on Loughrea; Michael Kearney, a scribe in Ballylargye, Co. Tipperary, translated a poem attributed to Ó Dubhagáin into halting English verse as The Kings of the Race of Eibhear; his obituary appears in Annals of Connacht [ saí re senchas ollam Ua Maine/a master-historian and chief poet of the Uí Maine]. DIW ODNB |
Works John ODaly, The Kings of the Race of Eibhear (Dublin 1847), and Do., The topographical poems of John ODuhbhangain and Giolla-na-Naomh OHuidrin, ed. with trans, notes, and introductory dissertations by J. O'Donovan. [Irish arch. and Celtic Soc.] (Dublin 1862) [23 cm.].
Notes Great teacher: There is an holograph manuscript by Adam Ó Cianáin in the National Library of Ireland entitled a leabhar Ó oidi moir .i. Seoan Ó Dubhagán [from the book of my great teacher], 1635 (MSS NLI G 2-3).
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