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'''Blathmac mac Con Brettan''' was an [[Ireland|Irish]] poet and monk whose [[floruit]] was around 760.<br />
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Blathmac was the son of Cú Brettan mac Congussa (died 740), seemingly a king of the Airthir, one of the [[Airgíalla]] kingdoms, situated in modern-day [[County Armagh]]. His brother Donn Bó was killed in battle in 759. Cú Brettan and Donn Bó both appear as characters in the saga ''Cath Almaine'' and are portrayed as poets.<br />
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Blathmac was educated in a monastic school and went on to become a monk. A manuscript containing his surviving poems, two meditations on the [[Virgin Mary]], ''Tair cucum a Maire boid and A Maire, a grian ar clainde,'' once in the possession of [[Mícheál Ó Cléirigh]], is in the [[National Library of Ireland]], where it was re-discovered by Nessa Ní Shéaghdha in 1953.<ref name=Harbison>[https://www.historyireland.com/volume-24/blathmac-eighth-century-irish-poet-rome/ Harbison, Peter. "Blathmac—an eighth-century Irish poet in Rome", ''History Ireland'', Issue 4 (July/August 2016), Volume 24]</ref><br />
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Art historian [[Peter Harbison]] says that st some point, Blathmac probably visited Rome as much of his poems reflect scenes depicted on mosaics in old Roman churches.<ref name=Harbison/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* Robert Welch, ''Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature'', 1996. {{ISBN|0-19-280080-9}}<br />
* Siobhán Barrett, [https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/10042/ 'A Study of the Lexicon of the Poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan'], PhD-thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth 2017 (includes complete edition and translation of the poems)<br />
* Siobhán Barrett and David Stifter, 'Blathmac’s stanzas 260–303 on Judgement Day', ''Celtica'' 31 (2019): 19‒89.<br />
* James Carney, "Language and literature to 1169" in Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), ''A New History of Ireland. Volume I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland'', 2005. {{ISBN|0-19-922665-2}}<br />
* James Carney, 'The poems of Blathmac, son of Cú Brettan: together with the Irish Gospel of Thomas and a poem on the Virgin Mary'. Irish Texts Society, London 1964<br />
* Edward O'Reilly, ''A Chronological Account of Nearly Four Hundred Irish Writers'', Dublin, 1820 (reprinted 1970)<br />
* Brian Lambkin, [http://www.dias.ie/images/stories/celtics/pubs/celtica/c23/c23-132.pdf "Blathmac and the Céili Dé: a reappraisal"]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''Celtica'' 23, 1999<br />
* Brian Lambkin, 'The Structure of the Blathmac Poems', ''Studia Celtica'' 20–21, 1985–6, 76–77.<br />
* Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, 'The poems of Blathmhac: the ‘fragmentary quatrains', ''Celtica'' 23 (1999): 227–230.<br />
* David Stifter, 'The Language of the Poems of Blathmac' ([https://www.academia.edu/19946714/The_Language_of_the_Poems_of_Blathmac Online])<br />
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