Eoghan Mac an Bhaird

Who is Eoghan Mac an Bhaird?

Eoghan Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, fl. between 1200 and 1600.

Eoghan was a member of the Mac an Bhaird family of professional poets during the era of High Medieval Ireland.

Composer of the bardic poem, Leannáin fileadh síol Suibhne, consisting of one hundred and ninety-two lines. No other extant poems can be attributed to him.

Its first twelve lines are as follows:

⁕Leannáin fileadh síol Suibhne

⁕treoin nach tráigh le cianchuimhne

⁕caor shlóigh ren doiligh deabhaidh,

⁕róimh an oinigh d'oileamhain.

⁕Lóchrainn oinigh Éireann Cuinn,

⁕sliocht an Athlamháin áluinn,

⁕an táin ó Thulaigh na n-Art,

⁕curaidh gan ghráin re nguasocht.

⁕Ní chlaochlóidh cuing a n-oinigh

⁕s iad don éigse as fhóiridhin

⁕ioldánaigh gan oil 'n-a gceann

⁕le goimh iombádhaidh Éireann.