Ó Bruadair, Dáibhi (c. 1625–1698)

Irish Gaelic poet. Ó Bruadair was born in east County Cork, and received formal training as a bard. A Jacobite (supporter of the deposed Catholic James II), he violently castigated the English and those Irish who betrayed their native traditions, and his verse records and focuses upon the turbulence of the 17th century in Ireland. Conscious both of the dignity of his calling, and of the crumbling of the ancient order he represented, his poems are in the old, strict metres (dán díreach) but he also makes use of the newer, looser type of metre, the amhrán, which was beginning to emerge with the fall of the Irish order.