Daibhi O Bruadair (David O Bruadair) (1625? – January 1698) was one of the most significant Irish language Irish poets of the 17th century. Events March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Ireland. ... Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... A 1907 engraving of William Butler Yeats, one of Irelands best-known poets. ...

He was born either in County Cork or County Limerick and spent most of his adult life in the latter county, receiving the patronage of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish landowners. This patronage was vital, as O Bruadair was the first of the 17th century poets to attempt to live purely from his poetry in the manner of the professional bards of the medieval period. It would seem that this attempt was not particularly successful, as his poem Is mairg nár chrean le maitheas saoghalts indicates that he was reduced to working as a farm labourer. He died in poverty. County Cork (Contae Chorcaí in Irish) is the most southwesterly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. ... Limerick (Luimneach in Irish) is an Irish county in the province of Munster, located in the Mid-west of Ireland with County Clare to the north, County Cork to the south and County Kerry to the west. ... Goidelic is one of two major divisions of modern-day Celtic languages (the other being Brythonic). ... The term Anglo-Irish means British-Irish and is used frequently to describe formal contacts, negotiations or treaties between both states. ... A bard is a poet and singer, with the particular meaning differing for various countries and epochs. ...

As well as Irish, O Bruadair knew Latin and English. He was a poet of considerable range, and wrote on historical and political subjects, as well as producing elegies on a number of his patrons, bitter satires on Cromwellian planters, religious poems of real feeling and, almost uniquely amongst Gaelic poets, at least two epithalamia. His versification was equally varied, and he wrote in both syllabic and assonantal metres. Latin - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. ... Epithalamium (from Greek; epi- upon, and thalamium nuptial chamber) specifically refers to a form of poem that is written for the bride. ... Syllabic verse has a fixed number of syllables per line or stanza regardless of the number of stresses that are present. ... Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse or prose. ... In literature, meter or metre (sometimes known as prosody) is a term used in the scansion (analysis into metrical patterns) of poetry, usually indicated by the kind of feet and the number of them. ...

External links

• Biographical note (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11193e.htm)

See also: Aogán Ó Rathaille, Piaras Feiritéar Aogán Ó Rathaille (1675? – 1729) was an Irish language poet. ...