An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh
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An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 poets, died 1415.

A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh
Ó Cobhthaigh
-Overview:Ó Cobhthaigh was the name of an Irish Brehon family from what is now County Westmeath and County Longford.There were at least three other families of the name, located in the regions of Limerick-Kerry, Down, west Cork, and Galway....

 bard
Bard
In medieval Gaelic and British culture a bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland...

ic family, An Clasach is noted in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "a famous poet and man of learning." He had sons Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh
Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh
Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, died 1429.A son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh and a brother of Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh , Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family...

 (died 1429) and Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, died 1446.A brother of Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh and a son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh , Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family. However, he was also famous as a soldier...

(died 1446), who were also poets.
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