Brian Ó Corcrán

Who is Brian Ó Corcrán?

Brian Ó Corcrán, Irish poet, died 1624?

Ó Corcrán's floruit is uncertain. An earlier Brian Ó Corcrán is listed as a vicar.

The surname is now rendered as Corcoran.

Ó Corcrán authored two surviving poems, Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain and Rí con Éireann Ábhartach

The first verse of Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain is the following:

Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain,

a mhic na flatha a finnChliaigh,

a aistrigh an toirbheirt truim,

h'aisgidh badh oirdheirc aguinn.

Rí con Éireann Ábhartach, a poem on Irish kings, begins:

Rí con Éireann Ábhartach

coiléan ciuin cruadhbhánaltach;

is tuar clú a hoirbhearta áigh

cú bhus oirrdhearca n-iomráidh.