Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh

Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (c. 1540 – c. 1630) was an Irish poet.

Life and works
Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh was a member of a hereditary learned family based at Larne, County Antrim, who was bard for the O'Neills of Clannaboy. Known as O'Gnive in English, among his best known poems is "A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!". His known surviving poems include:


 * A Niocláis, nocht an gcláirsigh!
 * Beannacht ar anmain Éireann
 * Cuimseach sin, a Fhearghail Óig
 * Éireannaigh féin fionnLochlannaigh
 * Mairg do-chuaidh re ceird ndúthchais
 * Tairnig éigse fhuinn Gaoidheal
 * Buaidhreadh cóighidh caoi Eanmhná 

Thomas Kinsella stated that: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations and plantations in the early seventeenth century". Two of Ó Gnímh's poems, After the Flight of the Earls and The Passing of the Poets, are featured on pages 162–164 of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, published in 1986.

A later member of the family, Eoin Ó Gnímh (fl. December 1699), preserved a number of manuscripts compiled or collected by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.