Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin

Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin

Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin, died 1086.

Mael Ísu Ó Brolcháin was a member of a high-class eccleasstical family, based in what is now Donegal. Besides holding a number of benifices and weilding considerable political influence, he was the author of the poem 'To an Elderly Virgin'. He died as a member of the religious community of Armagh in 1086, recorded as being "the chief sage of Ireland." His descendants bear the surname Ó Brolcháin, and in its anglacised form, Bradley.

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* pp.48-50; 396, "The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse", edited, with translations, by Thomas Kinsella, 1986.


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