Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (c. 1540 – c. 1630)[1] was an Irish poet.
Life and works
Fear Flatha
Ó Gnímh was a member of a
hereditary learned family based at
Larne, County Antrim, who was
bard for the
O'Neills of Clannaboy. Known as O'Gnive in English, among his best known poems is "A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!". His known surviving poems include:
A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!
Beannacht ar anmain Éireann
Cuimseach sin, a Fhearghail Óig
Éireannaigh féin fionnLochlannaigh
Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais
Tairnig éigse fhuinn Gaoidheal
Buaidhreadh cóighidh caoi Eanmhná
Thomas Kinsella stated that: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century". Two of Ó Gnímh's poems, After the Flight of the Earls and The Passing of the Poets, are featured on pages 162–164 of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, published in 1986.
Damian McManus; Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, eds. (2010). A Bardic Miscellany: Five Hundred Bardic poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries. Dublin: Trinity Irish Studies.