Uí Chléirigh

Clann léannta Ghaelach ba ea  Uí Chléirigh,  de mhuintir Uí Fhiachrach a bhí i réim sna Connachta le dhá mhíle aois.  De shliocht Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne ba ea Uí Chléirigh féin, a bhí i réim sa tuath le 800 bliain.

Is é a sinsear ná Fiachrae mac Eochaid Mugmedon, deartháir níos sine le Niall Naoighiallach.  De réir seanscéal, rianaítear a sinsearacht siar chuig na Fir Bolg agus Míl Easpáine dís, agus dá mba fhíor chuig Japheth mac Naoi.

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Is é Ó Cléirigh an sloinne is sine atá taifeadta san Eoraip, ag dul siar go dtí 916, ainmnithe as Cléireach mac Ceadaigh.

Le linn ionradh na Normannach ar Éirinn, cuireadh an ruaig orthu as a gcuid críoch, agus a ngaoil Uí Sheachnasaigh curtha ina n-ionad. Ón 11ú nó 12ú haois ar aghaidh, bhíodar lonnaithe i dTír Chonaill, áit a bhí agat i mbun seirbhíse mar filí agus staraí Uí Dhomhnaill.  Scríobh siad mar shampla idir Leabhar Ginealach Uí Chléirigh agus Annála na gCeithre Máistrí.

Feictear géaga Uí Chléirigh in Albain de thairbhe na naisc stairiúla idir an dá thír (cosúil le Clann Chaimbéil).

 Daoine 
 Ó Cléirigh 
 Mac Comhaltáin Ua Cléirigh, rí Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne, beo 964
 Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh (beo 1595–1630)
 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (ca. 1590–1643), príomhúdar Annála na gCeithre Máistrí
 Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (bás 1664)

 O'Clery 
 Keyes O'Clery, dlíodóir polaiteoir Éireannach
 Conor O'Clery, iriseoir Éireannach 

 Cleary 

 Bernard Cleary (rugadh 1937), Canadian politician
 Beverly Cleary (1916–2021), American author
 Bill Cleary (born 1934), American hockey player
 Brendan Cleary (rugadh 1958), Irish poet
 Brian P. Cleary (rugadh 1959), American humorist, poet and author
 Daniel Cleary (rugadh 1978), Canadian hockey player
 Gabriel Cleary, Irish engineer
 Ivan Cleary, rugby league footballer and coach
 Joe Cleary (1918–2004), Irish baseball player
 Jon Cleary (rugadh 1917), Australian author
 Jon Cleary (musician) (born 1962), American musician
 Mark Cleary (professor) (rugadh 1954), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bradford
 Nikki Cleary (rugadh 1988), American singer
 Paul Cleary (rugadh 1976), Australian middle-distance runner 
 Phil Cleary (born 1952), Australian commentator 
 Patrick Roger Cleary, founder of Cleary University
 Sean Cleary (footballer) (rugadh 1983), Irish football player
 Sean Cleary, Irish rugby league footballer
 Thomas Cleary, American author and translator
 William J. Cleary (1870–1952), American politician

 Clarke 
 Austin Clarke (1896–1974), file Éireannach
 Harry Clarke, ealaíontóir Éireannach 
 Henry Edward Clarke (1829–1892), businessman and politician in Ontario, Canada
 Henry Joseph Clarke (1833–1889), Premier of Manitoba, Canada, 1874–1878
 Peter Clarke (tennis) (rugadh 1979), Irish tennis player
 Philip Clarke (politician) (born 1933), Irish Republican Army member and politician
 Tom Clarke (Irish republican) (1857–1916), executed for his part in the 1916 Rising

 Féach freisin 
 Rítheaghlaigh Ghaelacha

 Foinsí 
 Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Walsh, 1996. 
 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, His Associates and St Anthony's College Louvain, Nollaig Ó Muraíle (eag), Four Courts Press, Baile Átha Cliath, 2007. 

 Naisc sheachtracha 
O'Clery family pedigree le John O'Hart ar Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann
Ó Cléirigh ancestor search  at Irish Times
Clan Ó Cléirigh DNA Project ar Family Tree DNA
The O’Clerys: hereditary historians and poets at History Ireland

 Tagairtí 

Catagóir:Connachta