- Blathmac mac Cú Brettan
Blathmac mac Cú Brettan, Irish "Fíle" (poet), fl.
760 .Believed to have being born in southern
Airgíalla (modern-dayCounty 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 theVirgin Mary , are in theNational 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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