- Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin
Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin, died
1086 .Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin was a member of a high-class eccleasstical family, based in what is now
Donegal . Besides holding a number ofbenifices and weilding considerable political influence, he was the author of the poem 'To an Elderly Virgin'. He died as a member of the religious community ofArmagh in1086 , recorded as being "the chief sage of Ireland." His descendants bear the surname Ó Brolcháin, and in its anglacised form, Bradley.ource
* pp.48-50; 396, "The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse", edited, with translations, by
Thomas Kinsella , 1986.
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