Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (English: Hugh MacCurtin) (1680–1775) was an Irish poet, tutor, and soldier,
Biography[]
Mac Cruitín was a descendant of a bardic family of Thomond. Other members of his family included the musician, Gilla Duibin Mac Cruitín (died 1405), and the poets Aindrias Mac Cruitín (c.1650-c.1738) and Seamus Mac Cruitín (1815–1870).
See also[]
- Piaras Feiritéar
- Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
- Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna
- Aogán Ó Rathaille
- Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta
- Art Mac Cumhaigh
- Seán Clárach Mac Dónaill
- Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin
References[]
- Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: A Fatal Attachment, p. 137, 151, 152, 154, 162, 163, 250, 260, 261, Éamonn Ó Ciardha, Four Courts Press, 2001, 2004.
External links[]
- http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/bardic/aodh_mac_cruitin.htm
- http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/literature/ar_phosadh.htm
- https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsAaXKLGvYC&pg=PA331
- http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mac/M-Cruitin_AB/life.htm
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