Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin facts for kids

Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin, Gaelic noblewoman and poet, fl. 1500. Despite being the ancestor of many members of the Scottish nobility, Iseabail is best known today as the writer of one of the most famous works of ... poetry in Scottish Gaelic literature.

A daughter of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Chief of Clan Campbell (died 1493). She married William Drummond, Chief of Clan Drummond. She became the grandmother of David Drummond, 2nd Lord Drummond of Cargill and is the ancestor of the Earls of Perth.

Three poems by Iseabail are preserved in the Book of the Dean of Lismore - Atá fleasgach ar mo thí, Éistibh, a Luchd an Tighe-se and Is mairg dá ngalar an grádh.

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Sources

• "Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore", Quiggin, Cambridge, 1937.
• "Women Poets in Early Medieval Ireland", Thomas Owen Clancy
• "An Leabhar Mór/The Great Book of Gaelic", ed. Theo Dorgan and Malcolm Maclean, 2008.