Life
fl.600; Irish saint, and chief of Irish bards in Imtheacht na Tromdáimhe
[Proceedings of Great Bardic Assemby], and supposed to inaugurated
bards’ extortion of hospitality from Guaire, king of Connacht, and
was killed as a result; avenged by his successor, Senchán Torpéist;
poetry edited by T. O’Beirne Crowe, as The Amra Choluim Chilli
(Dublin 1871), and Whitley Stokes, ‘The Bodleian Amra Chomluimb
Chille’, Revue Celtique XX 1899, XXI, 1900; also Irish
Minstrelsy, James Hardiman, ed., (Dublin 1831), trans. of odes to
Aodh Mac Duach; Panegyric verse on Columba, Bishop [?]Saan, and Abbot
Conall Coel; d. Connacht. DNB DIW OCIL
Works
Bibl. Vernam E. Hull, ‘Amra Choluim Chille’ in Zeitschrift
für Celtische Philologie, xxviii, 242.
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Criticism
Caerwyn Williams and Máirín ní Mhuiríosa,
Traidisiún Liteartha na nGael (1979), Chp. ‘Saothrú
na Gaeilge in Éirinn’, this chapter outlines the origins of
Irish writing in clerical context.
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