- Eochaid Buide
Eochaid Buide was king of
Dál Riata from around 608 until 629. "Buide" refers to the colour yellow, as in the colour of his hair.He was a younger son of
Áedán mac Gabráin and became his father's chosen heir upon the death of his elder brothers. Adomnán's "Life of SaintColumba " has Columba foresee that Eochaid, then a child, will succeed his father in preference to his adult brothers Artúr, Eochaid Find and Domangart.In the last two years of his reign, 627–629, Eochaid was apparently co-ruler with
Connad Cerr , who predeceased him. Eochaid was followed by his sonDomnall Brecc .Eochaid's other sons named by the
Senchus fer n-Alban areConall Crandomna , Failbe (who died at theBattle of Fid Eoin ), Cú-cen-máthair (whose death is reported in theAnnals of Ulster for 604), Conall Bec, Connad or Conall Cerr (who may be the same person as Connad Cerr who died at Fid Eoin), Failbe, Domangart and Domnall Donn (not the same person asDomnall Donn unless his obituary is misplaced by 45 years like that ofFerchar mac Connaid )According to the "Fled Dúin na nGéd", Eochaid Buide was the grandfather of
Congal Cáech . The story has anachronistic features as it has Eochaid alive at the time of the battle of Mag Rath (securely dated to within a year of 637), but it is chronologically feasible that Congal Cáech could have been the son of Eochaid's daughter if the identification of Cú-cen-máthair and the dating of his death is correct.References
* Adomnán, "Life of St Columba", tr. & ed. Richard Sharpe. Penguin, London, 1995. ISBN 0-14-044462-9
* Anderson, Alan Orr, "Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286", volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
* Bannerman, John, "Studies in the History of Dalriada." Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1974. ISBN 0-7011-2040-1External links
* [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork] includes the "Annals of Ulster", "Tigernach", "the Four Masters" and "Innisfallen", the "Chronicon Scotorum", the "Lebor Bretnach" (which includes the "Duan Albanach"), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/G302014/ Fled Dúin na nGéd] at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT]
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