Cormac Mac Con Midhe, a.k.a. Cormac mac Cearbhaill Mac Con Midhe (died 1627) was an early

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H.5.6, held at

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s apparently written by Mac Con Midhe for Toirealach Ó Néill of Sliocht Airt Óig of Tyrone and his wife, Sorcha. It survives in another copy of 188 lines in MS 1291 (formerly H.1.17), also in Trinity, both being made by Hugh O'Daly in the middle 18th century for a Dr. Sullivan. According to Ó Diobhlin (2000), "Because of the corruptness of the copy the poem has never been edited, nor have its contents been deciphered ... Toirealach was transplanted to Connacht, and then he disappears from history after the Jacobite rebellion."

References

* Manuscript H.1.7, Trinity College, Dublin. * Manuscript H.5.6, Trinity College, Dublin. * ''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. . 17th-century deaths People from County Tyrone 17th-century Irish-language poets Early modern literature Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-poet-stub