Maoilin Óg Mac Bruideadha, Irish poet and man of letters, died 1602.
Maoilin Óg Mac Bruideadha was of Kilkee in the parish of Dysart, County Clare. He succeded his father as ollamh upon his death in 1582.
According to Professor Leerssen, he was also one of the few native literati to embrace the new order even to the extent that he was in the employ of Trinity College for a period in the early to mid-1590s, and was also one of those involved with the Gaelic translation of the New Testament, undertaken for purposes of proselytization by the protestant archbishop of Tuam.
Half-a-dozen of Maoilin Óg’s poems are listed by O’Donovan in the Annals of the Four Masters. Over half a dozen of his poems are known to survive. They include Brathair don bhás an doidhbhreas (Poverty is death’s brother), addressed to Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond, included in a collection edited by Professor T. F. O'Rahilly.
He died in 1602 and was succeded by his son, Concubhair Mac Bruideadha. The names of both father and son crop up repeatedly as jurors and arbitrators in official documents preserved in the Inchiquin Manuscripts.