Life
1936-2010; b. Cork; ed. St. Nessan's CBS, and UUC; grad. Celtic Studies; taught at QUB; appt. Professor of Irish in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies [DIAS], 1973-78; Prof. Mod. Irish UCD, 1978-96; issued I mBeal Feirste Cois Cuain (1968), third prize in 1969 Butler Awards; edited Peadar Ó Doirnin;
issud Aisling Ghéar: Na Stíobhartaigh agus an t-Aos Léinn (1997), an acclaimed
treatment of Irish Jacobite poetry; his dgs. are well-known Irish language broadcasters; other appts. incl. Parnell Fellowship at Cambridge University, visiting Professorships at Notre Dame, NYU, and Boston College; survived by his wife Aingeal, dgs. Brídóg and Clíona, and son Traolach. DIW
Works
Aisling Ghéar: Na Stíobhartaigh agus an t-Aos Léinn (Dublin: An Clóchmhar 1997), 808pp. [reviewed by Liam Mac Cóil, in The Irish Times, 17 July 1997]. Also I mBeal Feirste Cois Cuain; Peadar O Doirnin: amhrain, Nua-Dhuanaire II; Cathal Bui.
Criticism
See Sean McMahon, ‘May the Lord in His Mercy’, in Éire-Ireland, 4, 2 (Summer 1969), pp.128-39 [qry connection].
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