Ó Caiside, Tomás

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

Ó Caiside, Tomás ( fl. 1750), poet. Born probably in Roscommon and ordained an Augustinian friar, he seems to have been defrocked on account of a love affair with a young girl who may have been the one addressed in ‘Máire Bhéil Átha hAmhnais’ , the folksong attributed to him.

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