Art Mac Cumhaigh

Art Mac Cumhaigh

Art Mac Cumhaigh (1738- 1773) was, along with Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Peadar Ó Doirnín and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, among the most celebrated of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century. As with the latter two he was part of the Airgíalla tradition of poetry and song.

It is commonly believed that Mac Cumhaigh was born in Creggan, County Armagh where a branch of the Uí Néill had been the traditional patrons of the poets under the old order. However, the most comprehensive research into Mac Cumhaigh life and works(Ó Fiaich, 1973)could only suggest a birthplace on or near the Louth/Armagh border in or near the parish of Creggan. Mac Cumhaigh eked out a living as a spáilpín, or travelling labourer. Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella remark about Mac Cumhaigh's most famous poem, Úr-Chill An Chreagáin, that 'in its simple innocence is a more attractive aisling, perhaps, than some more polished vision-songs by the late eighteenth century Munster poets.' [ Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, "An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed", p. 177. ] Although in that poem the Stuart Pretender is not mentioned, nor is hope of foreign help coming to free Ireland, a standard in aisling poetry, held out.

ee also

* Piaras Feiritéar
* Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
* Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
* Peadar Ó Doirnín
* Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
* Aogán Ó Rathaille
* Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill

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