Breen, Aidan

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Ua Cáellaide, Áed

Ua Cáellaide, Áed (d. 1182), Augustinian canon and bishop of Clogher–Louth, came from a family that had perhaps originally belonged to Éoganacht Chaisil; some members of the family had become kings of Uí Buide in Lóigis–Osraige. He was appointed (1138) to the diocese of Clogher–…

Ua Caráin, Gilla in Choimded (Gillebertus)

Ua Caráin, Gilla in Choimded (Gillebertus) (d. 1180), archbishop of Armagh, is named as the son of Inlestar Ó hAinlighe ‘chieftain of Cenél Doffa’ in the annals of Loch Cé, though nothing else is known of his antecedents. His name means ‘devotee of the Lord’. He was bishop of Raphoe…

Ua Casaide (Caiside), Gilla-Mo-Dutu

Ua Casaide (Caiside), Gilla-Mo-Dutu (d. p. 1150), poet and dynastic historian, came from Ard Breccáin (Ardbraccan, Co. Meath), but his genealogy is unknown. He was based on Daminis (Devenish), an island on Lower Lough Erne (Co. Fermanagh), where he composed his…

Ua Cerbaill, Donnchad

Ua Cerbaill, Donnchad (d. 1168/9), king of Airgialla (Oriel) and noted church reformer, was son of Cú Chaisil of the Uí Duibne branch of the Fernmag dynasty from which the name of the barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan derives. His mother was Aillend, daughter of Ua Baegelláin, a local…

Ua Conairche, Christian (Gilla-Críst)

Ua Conairche, Christian (Gilla-Críst) (d. 1186), Cistercian monk, bishop of Lismore, and papal legate, was born somewhere in Co. Kerry. He became a monk, perhaps in Bangor under Malachy (qv), who brought him to Rome on…

Ua Cúanáin, Echtgus (Isaac)

Ua Cúanáin, Echtgus (Isaac) (d. 1161), first known bishop of Roscrea and author of a poem on the Real Presence, was probably consecrated bishop at the synod of Kells-Mellifont (March 1152) by the papal legate Iohannes Cardinal Paparo…

Ua Duinn, Gilla-na-Náem

Ua Duinn, Gilla-na-Náem (c.1102/3–1160), chief poet in Leinster, was historian and lector of the school of Inis Clothrann in Loch Ree (Inchcleraun, Co. Longford). The Uí Duinn were a branch of the Uí Riacáin lineage of the Uí Fhailge of Leinster. Poems attributed to him…

Ua Dúnáin, Máel-Muire

Ua Dúnáin, Máel-Muire (1040–1117), possibly the first papal legate in Ireland, was appointed c.1100 by Pope Paschal II (1099–1118). He probably began his religious life as a monk at Clonard (Co. Meath), but his name is first documented in a charter (no. III) in the Book of…

Ua hÁedacáin, Imar

Ua hÁedacáin, Imar (d. 1134), anchorite and reforming abbot of Armagh, was, for a time, spiritual mentor of St Malachy (qv). Apart from a few meagre references in the Irish annals, Bernard of Clairvaux is the main source…

Ua hAingliu, Samuel

Ua hAingliu, Samuel (d. 1121), fourth bishop of Dublin, was nephew of his predecessor Donngus Ua hAingliu (qv), who died of plague in 1095. He had been trained as a Benedictine monk at St Albans in England. He was…

Ua hAinmire, Máel-Ísu (Malchus)

Ua hAinmire, Máel-Ísu (Malchus) (c.1047–1135), first bishop of Waterford, was one of the earliest and most important figures in the eleventh-century reform movement in the Irish church. Nothing is known of his ancestry or family background. In 1095…

Ua hartacáin, Cináed

Ua hartacáin, Cináed (d. 975), was a poet who, according to a note in the Annals of Ulster, belonged to the sept of Cernach Sotal, who held lands in Brega. A kinsman, Fiachra Ua hArtacáin (d. 978), was abbot of Iona. It has been persuasively argued that Ua hArtacáin was already…

Ua Lothcháin, Cúán

Ua Lothcháin, Cúán (d. 1024), poet to Máel-Sechnaill, king of Mide, was a native of Tethba in the kingdom of Mide. His family belonged to the Uí Lothcháin, rulers of Gailenga Móra (in present-day Co. Meath and Co. Longford), and were descendants of Cormac Gaileng. He composed…

Ua Riacáin, Muirchertach (Regan, Morice)

Ua Riacáin, Muirchertach (Regan, Morice) (d. p. 1176), secretary and interpreter to Diarmait Mac Murchada (qv) (d. 1171), king of Uí Chennselaig and ‘of the foreigners’. He communicated the substance of…

Ua Selbaig, Augustinus

Ua Selbaig, Augustinus (d. 1182), bishop of Waterford, may have belonged to the Ua Selbaig family of Corcu Loígde, but nothing of his ancestry or background is known. The Ua Selbaig family had supplied several abbots and airchinnig (superiors) to Cork – for example,…

Ultán mac hUa Conchobair

Ultán mac hUa Conchobair (d. 657), bishop at Ard Breccáin (Ardbraccan, Co. Meath) and to the Dál Conchobair branch of the Déisi in Mide, was the son of Rónán, son of Fintan. He is said to have been the uncle of St Brigit…

Virgil (Virgilius, Fergil)

Virgil (Virgilius, Fergil) (d. 784), abbot and bishop of Salzburg, is possibly to be identified with Fergil of Aghaboe – the name ‘Virgil’ perhaps being a Latin rendering of Fergil. The genealogies differ somewhat in the order of the names of Firgil's immediate ancestors, but…

Wauchope (Vauchop, Vanschop), Robert

Wauchope (Vauchop, Vanschop), Robert (c.1500–1551), papal archbishop of Armagh, was son of Gilbert Wauchope of Niddrie Marischal, Midlothian, Scotland, and was educated in Paris from about 1515, where he received his bachelor of arts and his

Windisch, Wilhelm Oscar Ernst

Windisch, Wilhelm Oscar Ernst (1844–1918), Sanskrit and Pali scholar and celticist, was born 4 September 1844 in Dresden, Germany, son of a teacher, was educated at the Kreuzschule in Leipzig, and went on to Leipzig University (1863), where he studied classical and comparative philology…

Zeuss, Johann Kaspar

Zeuss, Johann Kaspar (1806–56), philologist, linguist, and founder of Celtic studies, was born 22 July 1806 in the village of Vogtendorf, near Kronach in Upper Franconia, Germany, fourth among six children of Michael Zeuss, stonemason, and Margaretha Zeuss (neé Hanna). Although he…

Zimmer, Heinrich

Zimmer, Heinrich (1851–1910), philologist, historian, and Celtic scholar, was born 11 December 1851 in Castellaun in the Rhineland, Germany, son of a peasant farmer. After pursuing his early education at Kreuznach, he spent some time at the universities of Strasburg, Tübingen, and…