Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh

Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh

Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh (c. 1580 – c. 1640) was an Irish Gaelic poet and historian.

Born in County Donegal, Lughaidh was the cousin of renowned Gaelic historian Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. Lughaidh was the chief of his sept and participated in the Contention of the bards, a literary controversy of early 17th century Ireland. [ [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/] Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Oct. 11, 2007.] He was the author of "Beatha Aodha Ruaidh UÍ Dhomhnaill" (Life of Red Hugh O'Donnell), a biography of Red Hugh, a leader in the Nine Years War.

ee also

* Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin
* Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain
* Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
* James Ussher
* Sir James Ware
* Mary Bonaventure Browne
* Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
* Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
* Uilliam Ó Duinnín
* Charles O'Conor (historian)
* Eugene O'Curry
* John O'Donovan (scholar)

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