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{{Short description|Irish Gaelic poet and historian}}
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'''Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha''') (1570–1652) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Gaels|Gaelic]] [[poet]] and [[historian]].
==Biography==
Born in [[County Clare]] to a family of chroniclers for the [[Earl of Thomond]], Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha was most recognised for beginning the ''[[Contention of the bards]]''. He attacked the bard Torna Eigeas by composing a poem that claimed superiority of the [[O'Briens]] over the [[O'Neills]], or the southern septs of Ireland over the north.  He was ollamh to [[Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond|Donnchadh Ó Briain]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsAaXKLGvYC&q=%22Tadhg+mac+D%C3%A1ire%22&pg=PA326 |title = The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature|isbn = 9780198661580|last1 = Welsh|first1 = Irvine|year = 1996}}</ref> In 1652 he was assassinated by marauding soldiers of [[Oliver Cromwell]]’s army.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020930143329/http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/Mac/MacBruaideadha,T/life.htm]}} Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha at Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Sep. 24, 2007.</ref>
Among his family was a brother, [[Domhnall mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha]].
==See also==
* [[Seán Buí Mac Bruideadha]], fl. 1300s.
* [[Diarmuid Mac Bruideadha]], d. 1563.
==References==
*{{cite DNB|wstitle=MacBruaidedh, Tadhg|volume=34}}
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[[Category:17th-century Irish-language poets]]