Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín

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Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (English: Hugh MacCurtin) (1680–1755) was an Irish poet, tutor, and soldier,

Biography[]

Mac Cruitín was a descendant of a bardic family of Thomond. Other members of his family included the musician, Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín (died 1405), and the poets Aindrias Mac Cruitín (c.1650-c.1738) and Seamus Mac Cruitín (1815–1870).

Works[]

Mac Cruitín is the author of A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland which tracks both real and imagined events in Irish history from the steppes of Scythia to the Norman Invasion.

See also[]

• Piaras Feiritéar
• Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
• Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
• Aogán Ó Rathaille
• Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
• Art Mac Cumhaigh
• Seán Clárach Mac Dónaill
• Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin

References[]

• Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment, p. 137, 151, 152, 154, 162, 163, 250, 260, 261, Éamonn Ó Ciardha, Four Courts Press, 2001, 2004.

External links[]

• http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/bardic/aodh_mac_cruitin.htm
• http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/ar_phosadh.htm
• https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsAaXKLGvYC&pg=PA331
• http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mac/M-Cruitin_AB/life.htm