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Caitilín Dubh

fl. 1624–1629·Wrote in Irish

Dispossession · The Gaelic poets of dispossession (17th–19th centuries) · Irish

One of the very few named women bardic poets. Four of her elegies survive, composed for the O'Briens of Thomond in accentual metres rather than the male-dominated syllabic forms.

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