Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha) (1570–1652) was an Irish

Irish people

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 Gaelic

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 poet

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 and historian

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Biography

Born in County Clare

County Clare

-History:There was a Neolithic civilisation in the Clare area — the name of the peoples is unknown, but the Prehistoric peoples left evidence behind in the form of ancient dolmen; single-chamber megalithic tombs, usually consisting of three or more upright stones...

 to a family of chroniclers for the Earl of Thomond

Earl of Thomond

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, Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha was most recognised for beginning the 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...

. He attacked the bard Torna Eigeas by composing a poem that claimed superiority of the O'Briens over the O'Neills

O'Neills

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, or the southern septs of Ireland over the north. He was ollamh to Donnchadh Ó Briain

Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond

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. In 1652 he was assassinated by marauding soldiers of Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

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’s army.