Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin
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Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin, died 1086.
Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin was a member of a high-class ecclesiastical family, based in what is now Donegal. Besides holding a number of benifices and wielding considerable political influence, he was the author of the poem To an Elderly Virgin. He died as a member of the religious community of Armagh in 1086, recorded as being the chief sage of Ireland.
His descendants bear the surname Ó Brolcháin, and in its anglacised form, Bradley.
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- pp. 48–50; 396, The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, edited, with translations, by Thomas Kinsella, 1986.
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