School: Eanach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 15221)
- Location:
- An tEanach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Críocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 284
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- This poet was born in Kilcorcoran (Cill Corcoráin) about two miles east of Sráid na Cathrach in 1688. He was of Norman decent. His people lost their land in time of Cromwell but his father got Kilcorcoran from the Earl of Thomond after the war.Michael is famous for his great poem, Laoi Óisín i d-Tir na n-Óg. It is said that Niamh Cínn Óir, the heroine, was a figure of his own wife. He wrote a lot of essays which got lost. His son, Eamonn burned them because he was ashamed to acknowledge an Irish poet as his father.Michael's first wife, Áine Ní Bhriain died and he married Éibhlis Ní Craith, an Englishwoman. She hated everything Irish and she burned all her husband's writings. The book, Torolbh Mac Stairn escaped and is still to be found. Cummins died in 1760 and is buried in Cill Fear Buidhe without a lic or tombstone to identify his grave.
Áine Ní Chathahsaigh
Eanach,
Sráid na Cathrach
14 bliadhna
Inghean Fheirmeóra
Thomas O'Gorman
Knockanalban
- Collector
- Áine Ní Chathasaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Occupation
- Iníon feirmeora
- Address
- An tEanach, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Thomas O' Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc an Albanaigh, Co. an Chláir
