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The
Poems of Blathmac mac Con Brettan maic Conguso do Feraib Rois
, ‘Blathmac, Son of
Cú Brettan, son of Congus of the Fir Rois’, are two long, 8th century, Old Irish, religious poems
preserved in a 17th century manuscript now called MS G 50, which is house
d in the National
Library of Ireland, Dublin. While the provenance of the manuscript is not certain, it has been
suggested that this text was transcribed by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, or one of his consorts, who are
collectively known as the Four Masters. Mícheál
Ó Cléirigh, a Franciscan brother from County
Donegal, is renowned for the work he did as a collector of texts and is the chief scribe
associated with the
Annals of the Four Masters
. The connection between this manuscript and
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh is based on
the fact that in 1846, it was in the possession of John O’Clery,
who claimed to be a descendant of one of the Four Masters and who also claimed that the
manuscript was once the ...
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