Life
1931- [occas. Brendan Devlin]; b. Rooskey, Co. Tyrone; ed. St. Colum’s
College, Derry, Maynooth, and Rome; Prof. of Modern Languages, Maynooth,
1958; ed. Irishleabhar Mhá Nuad; pioneered critical methods
in modern Irish criticism; Néal Maidne agus Tine Oíche
(Dublin 1964), Oireachtas Prize, Club Leabhar Sel.; Amhráin
Dóchais (Dublin 1970), poetry; Litríocht agus Léitheoiracht
(Dublin 1973), a mile-stone for Irish-language criticism; Aistí
Critice agus Cultúir (Dublin 1974); Iseáia (Dublin
1975), later integrated in An Bíobla Naofa (1981); An
Branar gan Cur (Dublin 1979), novel; also Pascal (1993); Aistí
Critice agus Cuitúir II (Belfast 1999). DIW
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Works
Amhráin Dóchais (Dublin: Veritas 1970), 20pp.; as
Brendan Devlin, ‘The Gaelic League - A Spent Force?’, in Seán
Ó Tuama, ed., The Gaelic League Idea (Cork 1972); ‘Nuachritic
na Fraincise’, in Aistí Critice agus Cuitúir (Dublin
1974), pp.173-77; An Branar gan Cur (Gilbert Dalton 1979) [no ISBNs];
‘An Coimhthíos i Nualitríocht na Gaeilge: Nuachritic
na Fraincise’, in Aistí Critice agus Cuitúir (Dublin
1974); ); ‘An Phoblacht Abú’ in Scríobh 1 (1974),
pp.13-23 ‘Deoraíocht i gCulaithe Nua’, in Irish Times (1 Jan. 1974 ‘Cré na Cille’, in John Jordan, ed., The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature (Cork 1977), pp.72-88; ; ‘Smaointe
ag Cursaí na Próslitríochta’, in Comhar (Lúnasa
1984), B, pp.22-24; ‘In Spite of the Sea, An Irish Gael Looks at
the Poetry of Sorely MacClean’, in Raymond J. Ross and Joy Hendry,
eds., Sorley MacClean, Critical Essay (Edinburgh 1986); ‘Cén
Chúis nac Táilliúir Mé?’, in Irish
Times (15 Dec 1988); Iníon Mhaor an Uachta (Columba
Press 1994), 78pp.; Aistí Critice agus Cuitúir II (Belfast:
Lagan 1999).
Translations, Fabhalscéalta La Fontaine, trans. Breandán Ó Doibhlin (Coiscéim 1997), 159pp., revewed by Pól Ó Muirí, in Irish Times, 12.4.1997; also, Ó Doibhlin, trans. Smaointe le Blaise Pascal [Pensées] (Coiscéim 1994), and trans. Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry, Le petit prince.
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Criticism
Micheál Mac Craith, ‘Léitheoir Cruthaitheach, Na Foinsí
Liteartha atá ag Néal Maidine agus Tine Oíche’,
in Irishleabhar Mhá Nuad (1971), pp.56-71; Mac Craith, ‘Ceol
an Dúchais, Comparáid idir Néal Maidne agus Tine
Oíche agus Le Rivage Des Syrtes, in Irishleabhar Mhá
Nuad (1972), pp.57-63; MÓD, review of Néal Maidne
agus Tine Oíche, in An tUltach (Bealtaine 1965); Cormac
Ó Cochláin, review of An Branar gan Cur, in Comhar (Meitheamh 1980), pp.15-20; Ciarán Ó Coigligh, review
of An Branar gan Cur, in Mangarae (Dublin 1987), pp.133-35;
Ciarán Ó Coigligh, ‘Sionnach I gCraiceann Eile’,
revion of Sionnach ar mo Dhuán, in Books Ireland (Sept 1989),
pp.129-30; Maolmhaodhóg Ó Ruairc, ‘Cumhacht an Ghrá
in ag Néal Maidine agus Tine Oíche’, in Irisleabhar
Muighe Nuadhat 1966), pp.81-94; Liam Mac Coil, review of Aistí
Critice (1999) in The Irish Times (13 Feb. 1999). [The foregoing cited in Alan Titley, An tÚrscéal Gaeilge, 1991.)
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References
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 3, p.816; cited among recent experimenters in the
modern Irish novel, ed. essay, Eoghan Ó hAnluain [No bibl.].
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Notes
Sins of omission: Ó Doibhlin is not included among the comprehensive poetry selections
of Gréagóir Ó Duill, ed., Filíocht Uladh
1960-1985 (Coiscéim 1986).
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