Life
Learned family asssociated with Co. Galway, Co. Donegal and Co. Monaghan;
Conchubhar Ruadh (fl.1505); Somhairle mac an Bhaird (fl.1649),
great-grand-nephew of Conchubhar (fl.1505); Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird
[Hugh Ward, var. MacAnward] (?1580-1635), who initiated
the Annals of the Four Masters project; Diarmaid Mac an Bhaird
(fl.1670), son of Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird (fl.1600), prob.
residing in in Co. Monaghan; Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird [var. Eoghan
Ruadh mac Uilliam Óig] (?1570-?1630), hereditary ollamh of
the O’Donnell chieftains; resident in Co. Donegal; accompanied Rory
O’Donnell into exile (Flight of the Earls, 1607); author of "A
Bhean Fuair Fall ar a bhFeart [called ‘Woman of the Piercing Wail’
in Mangan’s trans.], bewailing Rory’s death at Rome, 1608; Fearghal
Óg Mac an Bhaird (?1550-?1620), br.-in-law of Tadhg mac Dáire
Mac Bruaideadha; sought and gained patronage of James VI at Edinburgh,
1581; encouraged Hugh O’Neill to oppose English power in Ireland;
also Godfraidh Óg Mac an Bhaird (fl. 1590);
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Criticism
See
Lambert McKenna, SJ, Dioghluim Dána (1938), and Aithdioghluim
Dána (1939).
Tomás Ó Rathile, Dánta Grádha, trans. with intro. by Robin Flower (1926).
Eleanor Knott, An Introdution to Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 (1928).
T. F. O’Rahilly, Measgra Dánta (1927). Also edns. of indiv. poets, incl. T. Ó Donnchadha. ed., Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe (1931); and Owen Connellan, ed., ‘A Bhean Fuair Faill [...]’ together with a translation by James Clarence Mangan, in Transactions of the Ossianic Society, V (1860), pp.294-308.
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References
Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers
(Dublin: Lilliput 1985) cites Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird [Hugh Ward,
or Hugh MacAnward] (?1580-1635); Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird (?1570-?1630);
Feargal Óg Mac an Bhaird (?1550-?1620); Godfraidh Mac an Bhaird
(fl.1600); Godfraidh Fionn Mac an Bhaird (fl.1610) Godfraidh Óg
Mac an Bhaird (n.d.; contemporary of Hugh O’Neill); Godfraith Mac
Briain Mac an Bhaird (fl.1600); Laoiseach Mac an Bhaird (fl.1600); and
Maolmuire Mac Connladh (d.1597).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)