Líadain
Poet-nun of the tale Líadain and Cuirithir, in which two poets renounce each other for the religious life and she is left with the grief. Whether she composed the poems attributed to her or the tale invented her, she is Irish literature's first named woman poet.
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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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