Teige Mac Con Midhe, Irish poet and writer, died in

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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 ...

was a member of an Irish

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family. According to the

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: * ''M1493.17 Mac Namee, i.e. Teige, the son of Conor Roe, son of Eachmarcach, an eminent poet and a good scholar, was slain by a labourer, one of his own people. i.e. the son of O'Clumhain.''

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.

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* http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/family.htm?FamilyId=997 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mac Con Midhe, Teige People from County Tyrone 15th-century Irish poets Irish male poets

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