Blathmac mac Cú Brettan

Blathmac mac Cú Brettan

Blathmac mac Cú Brettan, Irish "Fíle" (poet), fl. 760.

Believed to have being born in southern Airgíalla (modern-day County Monaghan), Blathmac was educated in a monastic school and went on to become a monk, strongly influenced by the Céli Dé (Culdee) movement. A manuscript containing his surviving poems, two meditations on the Virgin Mary, are in the National Library of Ireland, where they were re-discovered by historian James Carney.

References

*"Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature", Robert Welsh, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9


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