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Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh

fl. c. 1213–1230·Wrote in Irish

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

Bardic master who fled to Scotland after killing a tax collector. His elegy for his wife Máel Mheadha, M'anam do sgar riomsa a-raoir, is among the most moving personal poems in classical Irish.

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