Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn
Styles of Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn | |
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Spoken style | Your Grace or Archbishop |
Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn, also Maol Muire Ó Huiginn (
Ó hÚigínn was a son of Mathghamhain mac Maol Ó hÚigínn of Dougharane, Leyeny,
Ó hÚigínn was educated on the continent, where he took degrees in canon law, civil law and theology.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2]
Some of Ó hÚigínn's poems are extant. One, on the uncertainty of life, begins its twelve verses: A fhir threbas in tulaig, (English: '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’).[3] 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.[2]
References
- ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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- ^ Moore, Norman (1895). "O'Higgins". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. Smith, Elder & Co. p. 68. DNB42.djvu – via Wikisource.
Further reading
- 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.