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Blathmac mac Con Brettan

fl. c. 750–770·Wrote in Irish

Early Irish poetry · The early and medieval tradition (c. 6th–16th centuries) · Co. Monaghan · Irish

Monastic poet from Co. Monaghan. His two long devotional poems address the Virgin Mary directly and ask to keen with her at the Cross — an extraordinarily intimate register for the period.

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