Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?

Subject: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: GUEST,Beth
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 04:29 PM

Dear Mudcatters,

I am trying to research the Irish author of "Deus Meus Adiuva Me" but so far have not had any luck with my internet search.

Can anyone point me in the right direction or post some info here?

Such as... Date of birth, birthplace,interesting stories or legends, etc.

Thanks so much!

Beth

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: little john cameron
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:10 PM

O'Clery's Book of Genealogies

br>(col. d) Genelach Cheneil Feradaigh Beus .i. Muinter Brolchain

609. Maoil iosa m Mael brighde m Duib insi m Mael patraicc m
Doiligein m brolchain (o ttat muinter Brolchain) m Elgine m Diochon
m Floinn find m Maili tuile m Crunnmhaeil m Suibne mend m Fiachna
m Feradaigh m Muiredaigh m Eoghain m Neill.

607. Maol brighde, dino, athair Diermada ocus Aedha et Muiregein
et Maoil isa an cleiricc.

Translation

609. Maoil Iosa son of Mael brighde son of Duff of the island son of
Mael Patrick son of Doiligein son of Brochain (from whom the people of
Brolchan) son of Elgin son of Diochon son of Flann find son of Maile
Tuile son of Crunmael son of Suibhne mend son of Fiachna son of
Feradaigh son of Muirdaigh son of Owen son of Neill.

607. Maol Brighde, above, was the father of Dermot and Hugh and Muiregein and Maoil Iosa the cleric.

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: little john cameron
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:26 PM

Here's mair.
http://celt.ucc.ie/online/G400023/

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: little john cameron
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 06:33 PM

An mair
http://www.litriocht.com/Study25.html

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: GUEST,Beth
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 11:03 AM

little john cameron, Many Thanks!

Beth

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: little john cameron
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 01:58 PM

Nae bother Beth.Ah'm a wealth o useless knowledge.No much there aboot the man himsel but there is a book there on him.It disnae seem like he wrote that music tho. ljc

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 16 Dec 00 - 05:35 AM

for Deus Meus lyrics with modern Irish (as opposed to the original on the CELT site - link provided by John - see the Macarónachas / Macaronic song thread

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: GUEST,Beth
Date: 16 Dec 00 - 10:33 AM

Thanks Philippa I did enjoy that thread.

ljc... there were a couple extra verses on the CELT site that I don't have the English translation for, any chance that gaelic and latin are included in your "wealth o' useless knowledge"?! :-)

The translation I have (in case anyone else reading this is interested):

My God, help me. Help me darling Son of God. (repeat in reverse order)

Lord, give me what I ask of you. Bring it to me quickly, O bright clean Sun.

Your love is like a force. Give it to me powerfully, again what I ask.

Lord, Lord, hear me. My soul will be full of the love of God.

Also, does anyone know the origin of the tune that is now used?

Thanks again, Beth

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: little john cameron
Date: 16 Dec 00 - 10:46 AM

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/translist.html

Subject: RE: Who was Maol Iosa O Brolchain?
From: Felipa
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 11:00 AM

The links given by Little John Cameron no longer work.
Here is another link, which is working as of June 2022
https://www.dib.ie/biography/ua-brolchain-mael-isu-a8714

This link is "creative commons" licensed

" Ua Brolcháin, Máel-Ísu
Contributed by Breen, Aidan

"Ua Brolcháin, Máel-Ísu (d. 1086), author and ecclesiastic, was a member of the Uí Brolcháin, which produced a number of important Armagh churchmen in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. According to John Colgan (qv), he was educated at the monastery of Both Chonais (in the parish of Culdaff, Co. Donegal). He became a cleric and teacher in Armagh and later coarb (successor to the founder) of the monastic church there. If we may judge by his poetry, he led a life marked by asceticism and strict devotion. At least eight poems, in both Irish and Latin, can be attributed to him; it is very likely (in the light of recent research) that he also redacted the body of bilingual homiletic literature preserved in the Leabhar Breac, in which case his status as a scholar must be considerably enhanced.

"In his latter years he left Armagh and undertook a journey to the monastery of Lismore, Co. Waterford, where he died on the feast of St Fursa (qv), 16 January 1086. His death is noted in the annals, martyrologies, and calendars. His obit in the Annals of the Four Masters described him as ‘the senior scholar of Ireland, learned in wisdom, in piety, and in poetry in both languages’. Máel-Ísu was the first of many of the Ua Brolcháin family to merit mention in the Irish annals. His genealogy describes him as a cleric; unusually for his time, he was probably celibate, since there is no evidence that he left any offspring.

"Sources

O'Brien, Corpus geneal. Hib., 146 d15 (= Lec 56 vb 16 = BB 72 b21); Bibliotheca Sanctorum 8 (1967), 482–3 (M. Salsano); M. Ní Bhrolcháin, ‘Maol Íosa Ó Brolcháin: an assessment’, Seanchas Ardmhacha, xii (1986–7), 43–67; idem, Maol Íosa Ó Brolcháin (1986), esp. 13–20; M. Ní Bhrolcháin, ‘Máel-Ísu Ua Brolcháin’, S. Duffy (ed.), Medieval Ireland: an encyclopedia (2005), 307–8

Publishing information
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.008714.v1
Originally published October 2009 as part of the Dictionary of Irish Biography
Last revised October 2009"

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