Aongus mac Daighre Ó Dálaigh

Life
?1540-1600 [fl.1580]; poet to O’Byrnes of Wicklow, “Dia Libh a Laochradh Ghaoidheal”, war-poem collected in James Hardiman’s Irish Minstrelsy (1831) and later translated by Samuel Ferguson as “God Be with the Irish Host”. DIW OCIL

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Works
Leabar Branach [Book of the O’Byrnes]; edited by James Hardiman, in Irish Minstrelsy, Vol. II (Dublin 1831); J. H. Lloyd, Gaelic Journal, IX (1889); T. Flannery, Seacht Sárdhánta Gaedhilge (Dublin 1908); also Songs of the Irish Rebels, ed. P. H. Pearse (Dublin 1918).

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