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Séamus Ó Fearghail

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Séamus Ó Fearghail, aka James O Farrell, Irish poet and scribe, fl. 1711-1718.

Biography

Paul Walsh (priest) wrote of him in 1920:

"James O Farrell we hear of from Tadhg O Neachtain, already referred to: O Fearghail fa dheóigh Séamus seang/a crich Longphortach aird Eireann/James O Farrell the graceful/from the high land of Longford in Erin. He wrote some folios, now in the British Museum, in 1711. There were other scribes later named O Farrell."

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