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Uallach ingen Muinecháin

d. 934·Wrote in Irish

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

Recorded in the Annals of Innisfallen as banfhile Érenn — chief woman poet of Ireland. None of her work survives, but the title confirms that the office was formally open to women.

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