Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Tomás Ó Caiside, aka An Caisideach Bán, c. 1709 – 1773?, was an Irish friar, soldier, and poet.Ó Caiside's family were of Ulster stock, his parents settling in Leacht an Driseacháin (Drishacaun townland, parish of Kilmurry, Castleplunkett, County Roscommon). What is known of his life is told in Eachtra Thomáis Uí Chaiside, (The Adventures of Tomás Ó Caiside) which he wrote himself. Two surviving copies, one by his friend and contemporary, Brian Ó Fearghail, are kept respectively in the Royal Irish Academy and the British Museum.He was dismissed from the friary of Ballyhaunis on account of a bad senseless marriage and spent the rest of his life travelling all over Ireland and Britain, as well as central Europe. In 1733 he served in the Duke of Berwick's regiment, and was later pressed into the Prussian army, where he encountered the Potsdam Giants.He mentions having been in places such as the Electorate of the Palatinate; the Black Forest; Sandhausen; Hanover; Prussia; Brunswick; Bristol; Bideford.His poems include: An Caisideach Bán Béal Átha hAmhnais Máire Bhéal Átha hAmhnais Faoisdin Uí Chaiside (Ó Caiside's Confession) Bríd Ní Bheirn An Bráithrín Buartha (The Troubled Friar). }
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- Tomás_Ó_Caiside abstract "Tomás Ó Caiside, aka An Caisideach Bán, c. 1709 – 1773?, was an Irish friar, soldier, and poet.Ó Caiside's family were of Ulster stock, his parents settling in Leacht an Driseacháin (Drishacaun townland, parish of Kilmurry, Castleplunkett, County Roscommon). What is known of his life is told in Eachtra Thomáis Uí Chaiside, (The Adventures of Tomás Ó Caiside) which he wrote himself. Two surviving copies, one by his friend and contemporary, Brian Ó Fearghail, are kept respectively in the Royal Irish Academy and the British Museum.He was dismissed from the friary of Ballyhaunis on account of a bad senseless marriage and spent the rest of his life travelling all over Ireland and Britain, as well as central Europe. In 1733 he served in the Duke of Berwick's regiment, and was later pressed into the Prussian army, where he encountered the Potsdam Giants.He mentions having been in places such as the Electorate of the Palatinate; the Black Forest; Sandhausen; Hanover; Prussia; Brunswick; Bristol; Bideford.His poems include: An Caisideach Bán Béal Átha hAmhnais Máire Bhéal Átha hAmhnais Faoisdin Uí Chaiside (Ó Caiside's Confession) Bríd Ní Bheirn An Bráithrín Buartha (The Troubled Friar)".