Somhairle Mac Domhnail

Deceased Person

1580 – 1632

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Who was Somhairle Mac Domhnail?

Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, called by English speakers Sorley McDonnell, was a renowned soldier for the Gaelic cause in Ireland and Scotland during the Thirty Years War and the patron who commissioned two 17th-century manuscript collections of poems, Duanaire Finn and The Book of O'Connor Donn.

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Born
1580
Died
1632

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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