Teige Mac Con Midhe Explained

Teige Mac Con Midhe, Irish poet and writer, died in 1493.

Mac Con Midhe was a member of an Irish brehon family. According to the Annals of the Four Masters:

• M1493.17 Mac Namee, i.e. Teige, the son of Conor Roe, son of Eachmarcach, an eminent poet and a good scholar, was slain by a labourer, one of his own people. i.e. the son of O'Clumhain.

See also

• Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe (fl. 1210?–1272?)
• Brian Mac Con Midhe, chief poet to Turlough Luineach O'Neill
• Cormac Mac Con Midhe (d.1627

References

• Glimpses of Gaelic Ireland,, 33–64, G. Murphy, Dublin, 1948.
• Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge: Treoirliosta, Padraig de Brún, Dublin, 1988.
• Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy, by Diarmaid Ó Diobhlin, in Tyrone: History and Society, 403–432, ed. Charles Dillon and Henry A. Jefferies, Geography Publications, Dublin, 2000. .
• Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia", edited by Seán Duffy, Dublin, 2004.

External links

• http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/family.htm?FamilyId=997