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Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH
Ó Cléirigh, Míchéal (?1590–1643), annalist, and chief compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters . Born in Kilbarron, near Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, into the Ó Cléirigh learned family, his baptismal name was Tadhg, but when he was professed in Louvain as a Franciscan lay brother, he took the name of Míchéal.
He was trained as a scholar in the family tradition, and when Aodh Mac an Bhaird in Louvain was co-ordinating the research there and in Ireland which led to John Colgan's Actà Sanctorum Hiberniae (1645) and other publications, he sent Ó Cléirigh home in 1626 to gather manuscript material and to check dates and sources with living Irish scholars. He was based in the Franciscan friary at...
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