Caitilín Dubh
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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No source is linked here yet. For poets of this period the printed record is frequently the only one — see archives and resources, in particular CELT, the Bardic Poetry Database and the Irish Texts Society editions.
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