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Name
  
Colm Bhailis

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1905


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Colm De Bhailis A shaol & Amhráin


Colm de Bhailís (2 May 1796 – 27 February 1906) was an Irish poet and songwriter, from Lettermullen, Connemara, Ireland.

De Bhailís was a stonemason who travelled extensively throughout Ireland and is believed to have lived for some time in Kilrush, County Clare, and Westport, County Mayo. His works seem to have been very popular in the 19th century; Amhrán a Tei and Cúirt a tSruthán Bhuí were two of the most well-known of the seventeen poems he is known to have written. He is recorded at Oughterard Poorhouse in the 1901 Census as simply CW, aged 105 (Wallace being the anglicised version of his surname). Thanks to the efforts of Pádraig Pearse and Éamon de Valera he was moved from the poorhouse to lodge with the O’Toole family, Main Street, Oughterard. He lived until he was 109 years old and was buried in Kilcummin Old Cemetery in Oughterard. He was married twice, his second wife, Úna (surname unknown) dying around 1900. He had a son by his first wife, Siobhán Frainc Ní Lochlainn. The boy was baptised Tomás and died in 1877 aged 22.

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Colm de Bhailís Wikipedia