Eoghan Mac an Bhaird explained

Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (fl. between 1200 and 1600) was an Irish poet.

Eoghan was a member of the Mac an Bhaird family of professional poets during the era of High Medieval Ireland.

Composer of the bardic poem, Leannáin fileadh síol Suibhne, consisting of one hundred and ninety-two lines. No other extant poems can be attributed to him.

Its first twelve lines are as follows:

Leannáin fileadh síol Suibhnetreoin nach tráigh le cianchuimhnecaor shlóigh ren doiligh deabhaidh,róimh an oinigh d'oileamhain.Lóchrainn oinigh Éireann Cuinn,sliocht an Athlamháin áluinn,an táin ó Thulaigh na n-Art,curaidh gan ghráin re nguasocht.Ní chlaochlóidh cuing a n-oinighs iad don éigse as fhóiridhinioldánaigh gan oil 'n-a gceannle goimh iombádhaidh Éireann.

References

• Dioghluim Dána Láimhbheartach Mac Cionnaith Lambert McKenna (ed), Dublin, Oifig an tSoláthair [Government Publication Office], 1938, pp. 415–419
• The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, 1978.

External links

• http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G402125/index.html
• http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=