Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna
1680 –
1756
Cathan Bui Mac Giolla Gunna was born in approximately 1680, in Ireland’s Briefne region. Little is known about his life or family. The most famous of the several poems attributed to Mac Giolla Gunna is “An Bonnán Buí,” a popular Irish ballad. He died in 1756.