Life
1785-1848 [var. Ó Súilloibháin]; b. Co. Kerry, hedgeschool
master; recognised Daniel O’Connell’s greatness in Jacobite
poem; Amhráin na Leabhair [Song of the Books], a
poem regarding the loss of his books crossing by boat from Cahirdaniel
to Portmagee, and lamenting volumes of Cato, Euclid, Keating’s History
[Foras Feasa], the Psalter of Cashel, MSS of nationalist tracts;
the New Testament, and Bishop Ó Gallchobhair’s Sermons.
His poetry collected and printed by Séamus Dubh as Amhráin
Thomáis Ruaidh, The Songs of Thmás Ruadh O’Sullivan
the Iveragh Poet (Dublin 1914). DIW
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