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Liam Rua Mac Coitir

Irish poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ6539788 ↗
Source-derived summary

Liam Rua Mac Coitir (1675/90?–1738) was an Irish poet.

A Jacobite poet, Mac Coitir was the president of Daimh-scola na mBlarnan, at Blarney.

See also

Cotter family

Diarmuid mac Sheáin Bhuí Mac Cárthaigh

Dónall na Buile Mac Cárthaigh, fl. 1730s–40s.

Eoghan an Mhéirín Mac Cárthaigh, 1691–1756.

References

Ireland And The Jacobite Cause, 1685–1766: A Fatal Attachment, p. 193, 228, 260, 276, 306, Éamonn Ó Ciardha, Four Courts Press, 2001, 2004.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Liam Rua Mac Coitir” is irish poet. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Liam, Coitir and Irish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1675, 1738, 1691, 1756—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Liam, Coitir and Irish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6539788. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1675, 1738, 1691 and 1756.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liam Rua Mac Coitir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.