The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 16, October 17, 1840Various
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 16, October 17, 1840
Various
Ireland -- Periodicals
---- Donell,
---- Thomas,
---- Donell,
---- Donogh,
---- Giolla Seanain,
---- Donogh,
---- Morough,
---- Corc, who was the tutor of Murtogh O’Brien (the great
grandson of Brian Boru),
---- Feidhleachair,
---- Niall, who was henchman to Morough, the son of Brian
Boru, whose fate he shared in the battle of Clontarf,
---- Conn, from whom the name is derived.”
The pedigree is carried up from this Con through eighteen generations to
Cormac Cas, the son of Ollioll Oluim, and the common progenitor of all
the tribes of the Dal-Cassians.
In this notice we may add, as an evidence of the ancient rank of the
family, that the Irish annalists at the year 1188 record the death of
Edaoin, the daughter of O’Quin, Queen of Munster, on her pilgrimage at
Derry in that year. She appears to have been the wife of Mortogh O’Brien,
who died without issue in 1168, and was succeeded by his brother Donald
More, the last king of all Munster.
The Castle of Inchiquin is referred to in the Irish Annals as the
residence of the chiefs of the O’Brien family, at the years 1542, 1559,
and 1573; but the notices contain no interest to the general reader.
P.
ANCIENT IRISH LITERATURE--No. II.
In a preceding paper under this heading we lately gave a sample from the
lighter class of native Irish poetry of the seventeenth century, namely,
“The Woman of Three Cows.” We have now to present our readers with a
specimen of a more serious character, belonging to the same age--an Elegy
on the death of the Tironian and Tirconnellian princes, who having fled
with others from Ireland in the year 1607, and afterwards dying at Rome,
were there interred on St Peter’s Hill, in one grave.
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