Donncha Rua Mac Conmara

Mac Conmara, Donncha Rua, (1715-1810), poet; probably a native of Cratloe in Clare. He spent some years in the early 1740s in the Sliabh gCua district of Waterford and in Imokilly in East Cork. Between 1745 and 1755 he may have emigrated to Newfoundland. His best-known work is Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin, a possibly imaginary account of his emigrant's voyage to Newfoundland. His other poems include an elegy in Latin for his fellow poet Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin (d. 1795) and his song of repentance (‘An Aithrighe’).