Peadar Ó Dubhda

Life
1881-1971; b. Dundalk; ed. National School to 12, becoming messanger boy; self-taught in Irish, co-founded Gaelic league branch, 1889; collected songs and stories in Gaeltacht; won Oireachtas music awards; given temporary certificate of competence in Irish by Patrick Pearse, 1914; translated Douai Bible into Irish; involved in argument with clergy over its use in churches; produced illuminated manuscript of Irish Bible, completed in 1953; 3,000pp. in NLI.

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Criticism
Aodh Ó Cearra & Séamus Céitinn, Peadar Ó Dubhda, A Shaol agus a Shaothar (Dublin 1981), includes Séamus Céitinn, ‘Peadar Ó Dubhda, An Scríbhneoir Gaeilge’. [See Alan Titley, An tÚrscéal Gaeilge (1991).]

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