Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh
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1974 –
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Who is Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh?
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, died 1446.
A brother of Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh and a son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh, Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family. However, he was also famous as a soldier. One of his surviving poems, Aire riot a mhic Mhurchadha - addressed to the Mac Murchadha Caomhánach - urges the men of Leinster to resist the Anglo-Irish.
He was killed, along with his two sons, on the island of Cróinis on Lough Ennell, by Art Ó Mael Sheachlainn and the sons of Fiacha Mag Eochagáin.
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