Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín
Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (English: Hugh MacCurtin) (1680–1755) 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).
Works
Mac Cruitín is the author of A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland which tracks both real and imagined events in Irish history from the steppes of Scythia to the Norman Invasion.
See also
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.
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