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Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa

c. 1567–1612·Wrote in Irish

The bardic era · The early and medieval tradition (c. 6th–16th centuries) · Co. Fermanagh · Irish

Ollam to the Maguires of Fermanagh. He lived through the collapse of the Gaelic order and wrote its epitaph, most famously in his poem on Aodh Maguire campaigning in winter Munster.

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