Maol Muire Ó hUiginn
His brother was the poet Tadhg Dall Ó hÚigínn. Little is known of Ó hÚigínn's early life, but Tadhg Dall was fostered at Tír Conaill with the ruling Uí Domnaill family, and Maol Muire may have gone there with his brother. According to McGettigan, "A later source states that in his youth Maol Muire was an accomplished poet and harpist and also something of a philosopher." Ó hÚigínn was educated on the continent, where he took degrees in canon law, civil law and theology.
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Maol Muire Ó hUiginn
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- 1590
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- catholic priest · poet
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- Irish
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This high standard of education led to his consecration as Archbishop of Tuam in April 1586. He left for Rome sometime prior to 1590, possibly as a result of the severity of the rule of Richard Bingham. He was on his way back from Rome when he died at the episcopal palace at Antwerp on 5 August 1590, and was buried in the Cathedral of Our Lady within the city. Some of Ó hÚigínn's poems are extant. One, on the uncertainty of life, begins its twelve verses: A fhir threbas in tulaig, ('O man that ploughest the hillside'). Another, in praise of Ireland, is one hundred and thirty-six verses long. Its first line is: A fhir theidh go fiodh funnidh, (‘O man who goest to the land of sunset’). Several other of his poems on religious subjects survive. Ó hÚigínn's poems were still known by poets and historians, and continued to be copied in manuscripts well into the 19th century.
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• Archbishop Name — Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn • Dipstyle — The Most Reverend • Offstyle — Your Grace or Archbishop
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Maol Muire Ó hUiginn died.
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- 1.Fryde, E. B. Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. 443. 1986. 0-521-56350-X.
- 2.McGettigan, Darren. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. October 2009. 10.3318/dib.006386.v1.
- 3.Moore, Norman. Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder & Co. 42. 68. 1895.
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- CELTS - Corpus of Electronic Texts: The Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish history, literature and politics. University College Cork - Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh
- O hUiginn, Maol Muire (Miler O'Higgins), Darren McGettigan, in Dictionary of Irish Biography, pp. 574–75, Cambridge, 2009.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Miler O'Higgin, Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn, Maol Muire O hUiginn and Miler O’Higgins. His recorded language was Irish. His recorded confession was Catholic Church.
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