Brian Ó Corcrán


Brian Ó Corcrán, Irish poet, died 1624?
Ó Corcrán's floruit is uncertain. An earlier Brian Ó Corcrán is listed as a vicar.
The surname is now rendered as Corcoran.
Ó Corcrán authored two surviving poems, Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain and Rí con Éireann Ábhartach
The first verse of Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain
is the following:

Mo chion dot bhronnadh, a Bhriain,
a mhic na flatha a finnChliaigh,
a aistrigh an toirbheirt truim,
h'aisgidh badh oirdheirc aguinn.

Rí con Éireann Ábhartach, a poem on Irish kings, begins:

Rí con Éireann Ábhartach
coiléan ciuin cruadhbhánaltach;
is tuar clú a hoirbhearta áigh
cú bhus oirrdhearca n-iomráidh.