Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, Gaelic

Gaels

The Gaels or Goidels are speakers of one of the Goidelic Celtic languages: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx. Goidelic speech originated in Ireland and subsequently spread to western and northern Scotland and the Isle of Man....

-Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 bardic poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, born by 1550, died after 1616.

A member of the Donegal

Donegal

Donegal or Donegal Town is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. Its name, which was historically written in English as Dunnagall or Dunagall, translates from Irish as "stronghold of the foreigners" ....

 branch of the learned Mac an Bhaird

Mac an Bhaird

The Mac an Bháird family was one of the learned families of late medieval Ireland. The name has evolved over many centuries, the anglicized forms coming down to us as MacAward, McWard, MacEward, MacEvard, Macanward, M'Ward, and its most commonly used variant today: Ward...

 family, he was the son of Fearghail mheic Dhomhnaill Ruaidh Mac an Bhaird

Fearghail mheic Dhomhnaill Ruaidh Mac an Bhaird

Fearghal mac Domhnuill Ruaidh mac an Bhaird, Gaelic-Irish bardic poet, died 1550.A member of the Donegal branch of the learned Mac an Bhaird family...

, who died in 1550.

He visited Scotland

Scotland

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 and enjoyed the patronage of James VI. Red Hugh O'Donnell accorded him high status, and in 1602 Fearghal Óg wrote the lament ‘Teasda Éire san Easbáinn’, describing Ireland as an infertile waste after her prince's death. When James VI ascended the English throne in 1603 Fearghal Óg wrote an inaugural poem, ‘Trí coróna i gcairt Shéamais’, celebrating the new king's claims to three crowns. Some time after writing an elegy on Aodh Óg Ó Domhnaill of Ramelton, Co. Donegal, in 1616, Fearghal Óg went to Louvain

Leuven

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, where he lived in poverty.

He may have participated in An Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh (Contention of the Bards

Contention of the bards

The Contention of the Bards was a literary controversy of early 17th century Gaelic Ireland, lasting from 1616 to 1624 , in which the principal bardic poets of the country wrote polemical verses against each other and in support of their respective patrons.There were thirty contributions to the...

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External links

• http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/celtica/c24/c24-252-263.pdf
• http://www.answers.com/topic/fearghal-g-mac-an-bhaird
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/plantation/bardic/bp02.shtml
• http://suburbanbanshee.net/irishptr/irepoems/brianoru.html