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Dáibhí Ó Bruadair

c. 1625–1698·Wrote in Irish

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

The great poet of downfall. Trained for a vanished patronage system, he ended his life as a farm labourer, and wrote with magnificent contempt about a world that no longer valued learning.

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