Naisse mac Cithruadh

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Naisse mac Cithruadh''', Irish musician, died 1561.

==Biography==

The Annals of Loch Ce, ''sub anno'' 1561, contain a reference to Naisse and his wife, and their deaths on Lough Gill:

''Naisse, the son of Cithruadh, the most eminent musician that was in Erinn, was drowned on Loch-Gile, and his wife, the daughter of Mac Donnchadha, and Athairne, the son of Matthew Glas; and the son of O'Duibhgennain was a great loss.''

==See also==

* Daithí Ó Drónaí, experimental musician, born 1991. * Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh, harper, 1695 – 5 or 11 November 1807. * Donell Dubh Ó Cathail, harper to Elizabeth I, c. 1560s-c.1660. * Maol Ruanaidh Cam Ó Cearbhaill, murdered Saturday 10 June 1329. * Tuotilo, monk and composer, c. 850 – c.915.

==References==

* ''Music and musicians in medieval Irish society'', Ann Buckley, pp. 165–190, Early Music xxviii, no.2, May 2000 * ''Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland'', Ann Buckley, pp. 744–813, in ''A New History of Ireland'', volume one, Oxford, 2005

==External links== * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100010B/index.html

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