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Ó Cléirigh
The Ó Cléirigh, or O'Clerys, were a learned family of historians and poets in the service of the O'Donnell lords of Tír Chonaill. Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh wrote a life of Red Hugh O'Donnell, and the friar Mícheál Ó Cléirigh led the compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters in 1632–1636, the great chronicle of Irish history.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ó Cléirigh. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/o-cleirigh
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