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    Aedh Ua Raithnen

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    Aedh Ua Raithnen, Irish poet, fl. c. 954.

    Aedh was a poet, whose few known surviving verses concern the life and death of King Congalach Cnogba of Brega.

    Example[edit]

    A verse of Aedh's is inserted in the Annals of the Four Masters, sub anno 954:

    • After despoiling of pleasant Ath-cliath/Which sent the foreigners out of Ireland/Was two years over ten/Of the reign of fair Conghalach.
    • Four, fifty, in truth/And nine hundred,—no slight fact/From the birth of Christ at fair/ Bethil Till the death of the noble son of Maelmithigh.

    See also[edit]

    • Óengus mac Óengusa, chief poet of Ireland, died 930.
    • Bard Boinne chief poet of Ireland, died 931.
    • Finshneachta Ua Cuill, died 958.

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