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Seán Ó Coileáin

c. 1754–1817·Wrote in Irish

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

Cork schoolmaster; Machtnamh an Duine Dhoilíosaigh ("The Meditation of the Sorrowful Man"), a ruined-abbey elegy, earned him the nickname "the Silver Tongue of Munster."

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