Gofraidh mac Briain Mac an Bhaird,

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

- Irish

bardic In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's an ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, fl. 16th-century. A member of the

Mac an Bhaird The Mac an Bháird family () was one of the learned families of late medieval Ireland. The name has evolved over many centuries, the anglicised forms coming down as ''MacAward'', ''McWard'', ''MacEward'', ''MacEvard'', ''Macanward'', ''M'Ward'', ...

family of professional poets, Gofraidh is known from three surviving poems, ''Lámh indiu im thionnsgnamh, a Thríonóid'', ''Dairt sonn dá seoladh go Tadhg'' and ''Doirbh don chéidsheal cinneamhuin tairngeartaigh''.

References

* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

Edward MacLysaght Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Pat ...

, 1978.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G402143/header.html * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac an Bhaird, Gofraidh mac Briain 16th-century Irish-language poets Irish religious writers People from County Donegal Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown