Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh

Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh, Irish poet, fl. c. 1600.

Life

Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh was a member of a hereditary learned family based at Larne, County Antrim, who was bard for the O'Neills. His known surviving poems are

Kinsella remarks: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century." Two of his poems, After the Flight of the Earls and The Passing of the Poets are featured on pages 162-164 of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, published in 1986.

A later member of the family, Eoin Ó Gnímh (fl. December 1699), would preserve a number of manuscripts compiled or collected by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.

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