Ó Gnímh

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

Ó Gnímh, a bardic family with lands near Larne, Co. Antrim, recorded as practitioners of bardic poetry in the 16th and 17th cents. They received the patronage of the Ó Néills and the Antrim Mac Domhnaills. One Eoin Agniw, a latter-day member of the family, sold manuscripts to Edward Lhuyd in Larne in 1699.

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