Donnchadh Ó Cobhthaigh
Diarmait Ó Cobhthaigh was an Irish poet, fl. 1584.
Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family, based in what is now County Westmeath but was once the heartland of the original kingdom of Mide. The family were from the district known as .
He was the author of a penitential composition, Acht mar uisge d'éis a leata ("Just as water, after it has frozen"), which was a translation of the Latin poem Lympha coacta gelu ("Liquid, condensed by cold"). The translation survives only in a black half-column of , on folio 89vb, a collection of Irish saint's lives now held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
See also[]
- An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh, died 1415.
- Diarmait Ó Cobhthaigh, fl. 1584.
References[]
- Ó Cobhthaigh family, pp. 435–436, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.
Categories:
- 16th-century Irish writers
- People from County Westmeath
- Irish-language poets
- Irish religious writers
- People of Elizabethan Ireland