Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh

Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (1540—1630)^[1] was an Irish poet.

Life[]

Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh was a member of a hereditary learned family based at Larne, County Antrim, who was bard for the O'Neills. His known surviving poems are

• A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!
• Beannacht ar anmain Éireann
• Cuimseach sin, a Fhearghail Óig
• Éireannaigh féin fionnLochlannaigh
• Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais
• Tairnig éigse fhuinn Gaoidheal
• Buaidhreadh cóighidh caoi Eanmhná

Kinsella remarks: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century." Two of his poems, After the Flight of the Earls and The Passing of the Poets are featured on pages 162–164 of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, published in 1986.

A later member of the family, Eoin Ó Gnímh (fl. December 1699), would preserve a number of manuscripts compiled or collected by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.

See also[]

• Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa
• Mathghamhain Ó hIfearnáin

References[]

• The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, p. 400, ed., with translations, by Thomas Kinsella, Oxford University Press, 1986.
• The Celebrated Antiquary, p. 196, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Maynooth, 1996.
• A Bardic Miscellany: Five Hundred Bardic poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries, edited by Damian McManus and Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Trinity Irish Studies, Dublin, 2010.

External links[]

• http://celt.ucc.ie/bardic.html
• Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh at ricorso.net