Biography

Ó Doirnín is one of the most celebrated of the Ulster

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 poets in the eighteenth century and along with Art Mac Cumhaigh

Art Mac Cumhaigh

Art Mac Cumhaigh was, along with Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Peadar Ó Doirnín and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, among the most celebrated of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century...

, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna

Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna

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 and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta

Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta

Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta was a central figure in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Airgíalla school of poets and songwriters in the Irish language...

 was part of the Airgíalla tradition of poetry and song. They were the northern representatives of the Hidden Ireland of poets and learned scholars whose existence in eighteenth century Munster Daniel Corkery famously wrote about in his 1924 classic.

Ó Doirnín's work is still alive in the tradition of north Leinster and south Ulster, while his authorship of nationally and internationally

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 celebrated songs like Mná na hÉireann is little known. Other songs such as Úrchnoc Chéin mhic Cáinte make classic Gaelic appeals for a return to nature reminiscent of its contemporary Lon Doire an Chairn (a poem which attained new renown in the twentieth century

History of Ireland

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 under the title Blackbird of Derrycairn by Austin Clarke

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). For the sexual inferences of Úrchnoc Chéin mhic Cáinte, Ó Doirnín, the Hedgeschool master, is reputed to have been dismissed from his teaching job.

Poetry Collections

1. Peadar Ó Doirnín: Amhráin, Breandán Ó Buachalla 1969
2. Peadar Ó Doirnín, Seán de Rís 1969

See also

• Piaras Feiritéar
  Piaras Feiritéar
  Piaras Feiritéar was an Irish poet.Feiritéar was a Norman-Irish lord of Baile an Fheirtéaraigh in Corca Dhuibhne. Although best known as a poet, it was his role as a leader of the nascent Catholic Irish community of Norman- and Gaelic- Irish origin which ultimately lead to his execution in...
  
  
• Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
  Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
  Dáibhí Ó Bruadair was one of the most significant Irish language poets of the 17th century. He lived through a momentous time in Irish history and his work serves as testimony to the death of the old Irish cultural and political order and the decline in respect for the once honoured and feared...
  
  
• Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
  Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
  -Biography:Along with Peadar Ó Doirnín, Art Mac Cumhaigh and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna one of the four most prominent of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
  
  
• Aogán Ó Rathaille
  Aogán Ó Rathaille
  Aodhagán Ó Rathaille, also spelt Aogán Ó Rathaille or Anglicised as Egan O'Rahilly , was an Irish language poet. He is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem.-Early life:...
  
  
• Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
  Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
  Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta was a central figure in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Airgíalla school of poets and songwriters in the Irish language...
  
  
• Art Mac Cumhaigh
  Art Mac Cumhaigh
  Art Mac Cumhaigh was, along with Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Peadar Ó Doirnín and Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta, among the most celebrated of the south Ulster and north Leinster poets in the eighteenth century...
  
  
• Seán Clárach Mac Dónaill
• Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin