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Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (c. 1580 – 1653), Irish poet and priest. ==Background== Mac Giolla Phádraig was a scion of the dynasty that ruled Ossory from at least the 9th century. Only a handful of his poems are extant. A cry of despair against the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, and its consequences for the world and class to which he belonged, his ''Faisean Chláir Éibhir'' bears a striking resemblance to the poetry of the great Dáibhí Ó Bruadair: ''"A trick of this false world has laid me low: servants in every home with grimy English but no regard for one of the poet class save "Out! and take your precious Gaelic with you!"''〔See another translation in Joep Leerssen’s ''Mere Irish and Fior-Gael'' (Cork UP, 1996)〕 Mac Giolla Phádraig was ordained a priest in 1610. Around the year 1651 he was appointed vicar general and apostolic vicar of the diocese of Ossory, which covers County Kilkenny and western County Laois. He was killed by Oliver Cromwell's forces shortly afterwards.〔Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, ''An Duanaire 1600–1900: Poems of the Dispossessed'', p. 89.〕 In ''Threnodia Hiberno-Catholica'', his death is described: "He was pursued into a cave by the heretics, who there cut off his head, placed it on a pole at the gates of a certain town and left his body to be devoured by the wild beasts." The historian William Carrigan writes that according to local tradition, slaughter was committed on church people in Tinwear, a quarter of a mile from Durrow. According to Fearghus Ó Fearghail in ''Kilkenny History and Society'', "Bernard Fitzpatrick, who had administered the díocese after Bishop Rothe’s death from his hiding place in his ancestral home in County Laois, was tracked down and killed in 1653."〔http://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1365〕 A memorial to Mac Giolla Phádraig is in the square in Durrow. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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