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| Cú Choigríche Ó Duibhgeannáin | |
|---|---|
 Monument to the Four Masters, located at the bridge over the Drowes River near Kinlough, near Ó Duibhgeannáin's homeland | |
| Born | Cú Coigriche mac Tuathal Ó Duibhgeannáin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Annals of the Four Masters |
Cú Choigríche Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1627–1636), anglicised Peregrine O'Duignan, was an Irish historian and chronicler.
He is best known for being one of the "Four Masters" - the authors of the historical chronicle Annals of the Four Masters.
Name
Cú Coigriche (also Cuchogry) means "hound of the neighbouring land." Upon taking holy orders in the Franciscan Order of Leuven, his name was latinised to Pereginus.
Early life
Ó Duibhgeannáin was born about or after 1590. His father was Tuathal Buidhe Ó Duibhgeannáin, of Castlefore, County Leitrim.
His family, the clan Uí Dhuibhgeannáin, were professional historians from Annaly, many of whom had crossed the Shannon and practised their art in Connacht. Here the Ó Duibhgeannains set up a bardic college at Kilronan, near Lough Key in northern County Roscommon.
The "Four Masters"
Around 1627, he began working with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh and Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire under the direction of Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. In that year Ó Cléirigh was sent from his mother house at Leuven to Ireland to collect Irish literary, historical and chronological material in danger of being lost. These materials were assembled into a number of compilations, the most famous being the Annals of the Four Masters.
In 1636, the year Annals was completed, it is likely Ó Duibhgeannáin returned to Leuven with Mícheál Ó Cléirigh. It is possible that he remained in Ireland, as a copy of the annals was being used in the town of Galway by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh in the late 1640s. It may not be coincidental that a kinsman of Ó Duibhgeannáin, Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin ("lame David") was living and working in Connemara at least as early as 1651.
See also
- Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin
- Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
- James Ussher
- Sir James Ware
- Mary Bonaventure Browne
- Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
- Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh
- Uilliam Ó Duinnín
- Charles O'Conor (historian)
- Eugene O'Curry
- John O'Donovan (scholar)
- Ó Duibhgeannáin
References
- ^ Cunningham, Bernadette (October 2009). "Ó Duibhgeannáin, Cú Choigcríche". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006352.v1. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
Sources
- "The Learned Family of O Duigenan", Fr. Paul Walsh, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 1921
- "The Four Masters" (I & II, 1932 & 1934), Fr. Paul Walsh, Irish Leaders & Learning Through the Ages, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2004, ISBN 1-85182-543-6
- O Duibhgeannain, Cu Choigcriche (O'Duigenan, Peregrine), pp. 435–36, Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, Cambridge, 2010.
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