Brian Mac Con Midhe, Irish poet and writer, fl 1590s.
A son of Aonghus
Mac Con Midhe
Mac Con Midhe was the name of a family of poets in Gaelic Ireland. The name is also now rendered as Mac Namee, McNamee, Conmee, and McConway.
Overview
There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the River Foyle in the de ...
, Brian was a member of an Irish
brehon
Brehon (, ) is a term for a historical arbitration, mediative, and judicial role in Gaelic culture. Brehons were part of the system of Early Irish law, which was also simply called " Brehon law". Brehons were judges, close in importance to the ...
family, and chief poet to
Turlough Luineach O'Neill
Sir Turlough Lynagh O'Neill (also known as Turlough Luineach) ( Irish: ''An Ridire Toirdhealbhach Luineach mac Néill Chonnalaigh Ó Néill''; – September 1595) was an Irish Gaelic lord of Tír Eoghain in early modern Ireland. He was inau ...
.
See also
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Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe
Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe, or Gilbride McNamee () was an Irish poet.
Background and family
Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe was hereditary Ollamh to the Cenél nEógain. The '' Ceart Uí Néill'', a late medieval document dealing with the rights ...
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fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
1210?–1272?)
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Teige Mac Con Midhe
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Cormac Mac Con Midhe
Cormac Mac Con Midhe, a.k.a. Cormac mac Cearbhaill Mac Con Midhe (died 1627) was an early Modern Irish poet.
Manuscript H.5.6, held at Trinity College, Dublin, contains a poem of 24 stanza
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'', ; ) ...
(d.1627)
References
* ''Glimpses of Gaelic Ireland,'', 33–64, G. Murphy, Dublin, 1948.
* ''Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge: Treoirliosta,''
Padraig de Brún, Dublin, 1988.
* ''Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy,'' by Diarmaid Ó Diobhlin, in ''Tyrone: History and Society,'' 403–432, ed. Charles Dillon and Henry A. Jefferies, Geography Publications, Dublin, 2000. .
* ''Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia'', edited by Seán Duffy, Dublin, 2004.
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110610141055/http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/family.htm?FamilyId=997
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16th-century Irish-language poets
Writers from County Tyrone
16th-century Irish writers
16th-century Irish male writers