Brian Ó Corcrán

Brian Ó Corcrán, Irish poet, died 1624?

Ó Corcrán's floruit is uncertain. An earlier Brian Ó Corcrán (died 1487) is listed as a vicar.

The surname is now rendered as Corcoran (surname).

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.

References

Irish Bardic Poetry, Ed. Osborn Bergin, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1970) page 63-65.
* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, 1978.

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