Life
(?1700-1769); b. nr. Dundalk (though assigned to Cashel, Co. Tipperary
in an account by John O”Daly); tutor to family of Arthur Brownlow
of Lurgan; m. Rose Toner; hedge-school master at Forkhill; believed active
as a Whiteboy, c.1740; copied Keating”s Foras Feasa ar Eirinn
in extant manuscript; mocks Muiris Ó Gormáin for lack of English;
love poems include “Mná na hEireann”, “M”Uilleagán
Dubh O”, and well-known “Ur-Chnoc Chéin Mhic Cáinte”;
others incl. drinking song “Captain Fuiscí”; his poetry
reflects political confusions of period and a devotion to the pleasures
of the flesh; wrote verse in English to Irish metres; bur. Urney Urnea],
on Louth-Armagh border.
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Works
Breandán Ó Buachalla, ed., Peadar Ó Doirnín:
Amhráin (1969).
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