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- d. in or after 1664
Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.
Irish scholar, historian and poet, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh. His obit in the Annals of Ulster describes him as a duine maith ealadhna and sai re sencus ⁊ fer dána maith. He was slain in 1522.
Irish poet, historian and scholar, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
- fl. 15th/16th century
Irish scribe, son of Tuathal son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh. He is the main scribe of the miscellany Harley MS 5820 and Rawlinson MS 514 containing Maghnus Ó Domhnall’s Life of Colum Cille. His own floruit cannot be pinned down with any precision but his father is kown to have died in 1512.
Ó Cléirigh (Giolla Riabhach Mór) See: Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail Ó Cléirigh
Irish poet
- c.1580–c.1630
- County Donegal, Tir Conaill
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.
- d. 1595?
- Thomond
Irish poet and historian, who was a son of Cú Choigcríche son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh and ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill. The AFM laud him for his erudition, eloquence and religious piety.
Poet to Toirdhealbhach Luineach Ó Néill; killed in 1583.
- d. 1643
- Louvain
Irish scholar, historian and scribe.
A son of Cú Choigcríche, son of Diarmaid son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh, and a brother of the poet Mac Con; was executed with two poets in 1572.
- 1778–1846
- Dublin, Drong ... Drung, Co. Cavan
Seán (or John) Ó Cleirigh, Irish scribe who could probably claim descent from certain illustrious scholars of the Uí Chléirigh, even if his own testimony seems fuzzy and inconsistent. He appears to have had, perhaps inherited, an unknown number of Irish manuscripts written by or associated with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, five of which he brought to Dublin in 1817.
Ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill.
- d. 1492
According to his obit in AFM s.a. 1492, ollamh to the Uí Dhomhnaill in history, poetry and literature (i n-eiccsi, h-i filidheacht ⁊ a senchus).
Irish poet and historian, who was a son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh.
A learned Irish family that produced many poets and historians to chiefs of the Uí Dhomhnaill.
