Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn
Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn (1102 – 17 December 1160) was an Irish poet, historian, and cleric. The Annals of the Four Masters describe him as: "lector of Inis-Clothrann, a paragon in history and poetry, and a good speaker, sent his spirit to his heavenly patrimony, amid a choir of angels, on the 17th of December, in the fifty-eighth year of his age." Inis Clothran is an island located in the northern part of Lough Ree, on the River Shannon. It contains the remains of a monastery of which Ua Duinn was lector.
Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn
- Born
- 1102
- Died
- 1160
- Occupation
- historian · poet
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Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn (1102 – 17 December 1160) was an Irish poet, historian, and cleric. The Annals of the Four Masters describe him as: "lector of Inis-Clothrann, a paragon in history and poetry, and a good speaker, sent his spirit to his heavenly patrimony, amid a choir of angels, on the 17th of December, in the fifty-eighth year of his age." Inis Clothran is an island located in the northern part of Lough Ree, on the River Shannon. It contains the remains of a monastery of which Ua Duinn was lector.
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Born in 1102, died in 1160.
Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn (1102–1160) was a historian and poet.
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