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Micheál Óg Ó Longáin

1766–1837·Wrote in Irish

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

Cork scribe, United Irishman and poet, from a family that copied manuscripts for four generations — the reason a great deal of Munster verse survives at all.

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