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Ó Riain, Pádraig (ed.), Beatha Aodha Ruaidh: The life of Red Hugh O’Donnell: historical and literary contexts, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 12, London: Irish Texts Society, 2002.

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Beatha Aodha Ruaidh: The life of Red Hugh O’Donnell: historical and literary contexts
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London
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Irish Texts Society
Year
2002
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This work, written about 1616 by Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, narrates the events of Aodh Ruadh's life, from his capture and imprisonment in Dublin Castle in 1587 to his death in Spain in 1602. It focuses particularly on the period of the 'Nine Years War', including the battle of Kinsale (1601), seeing in the latter the loss of 'the authority and sovereignty of the Gaels of Ireland to the end of time.' As such, it is one of the few native sources to have covered in detail the events that culminated in the battle of Kinsale. Combining the traditional modes of Gaelic narrative with the novel features of Renaissance biography, the real aim of this literary and political document, according to Mícheál Mac Craith, was to further the martial career of Aodh Ruadh's nephew.

Its editor, Paul Walsh, was one of the most productive Irish scholars of the early twentieth century. His edition of the Life of Aodh Ruadh was the subject of the Society's annual seminar, held in conjunction with the Departments of Irish at UCC in 2001. The proceedings of the seminar have since been edited by Pádraig Ó Riain in the Subsidiary Series (no. 12).
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Lughaidh Ó CléirighÓ Cléirigh (Lughaidh)
(c.1580–c.1630)
Irish historian and poet, known best as the author of a ‘biography’ of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill (Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill) and as one of the initiators of the ‘Contention of the Bards’; was one of the sons of Mac Con Ó Cléirigh and a cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.
See more Aodh Ruadh Ó DomhnaillÓ Domhnaill (Aodh Ruadh)
(1572–1602)
O'Donnell (Red Hugh), Ó Domhnaill (Aodh Ruadh mac Aodha meic Maghnusa)
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