Colm de Bhailís

Colm de Bhailís (2 May 1796 – 27 February 1906) was an Irish poet and songwriter, from Lettermullen, Connemara, Ireland.

De Bhailís was a stonemason who travelled extensively throughout Ireland and is believed to have lived for some time in Kilrush, County Clare, and Westport, County Mayo. His works seem to have been very popular in the 19th century; Amhrán a Tei and Cúirt a tSruthán Bhuí were two of the most well-known of the seventeen poems he is known to have written. He died at Oughterard Poorhouse in 1906, aged 109. He is buried in the Old Cemetery, Oughterard. He was married twice, his second wife, Úna (surname unknown) dying around 1900. He had a son by his first wife, Siobhán Frainc Ní Lochlainn. The boy was baptised Tomás and died in 1877 aged 22.

Bibliography

• Amhrán Chuilm de Bhailís (1904), ed. by J.H. Lloyd, with notices by Douglas Hyde and Pádraig Pearse.

External links

• http://www.ria.ie/projects/dib/debhalis.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7DLv5IbyzY
• http://johnsmyth.ie/blog/2009/04/13/1114/
• http://anghaeltacht.net/cdebh/saol.html
• http://www.jstor.org/pss/25535730