Tadhg Ó Rodaighe and his school: aspects of patronage and poetic practice at the close of the bardic era

Abstract

An examination of the phenomenon of the recycled poem, with reference to bardic poetry in the seventeenth century, and to the activities of a late school of poets in the Leitrim-Roscommon-Sligo area centred on the scribe and scholar, Tadhg Ó Rodaighe.