He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century.
His works have been translated into other languages
From early 1900s
In cinemas nationwide on September 16th
“We are bound to love our own people with a special and peculiar love, a love that is not founded upon the common characteristics of the human race, but which is founded upon the special and distinctive character of our own nationality.” – Father Mícheál Ó Flannagáin Michael Flanagan was born near Castlerea in Co. […]
Belfast rally
A farmer’s son, Peadar Ó Laoghaire was born in Clondrohid, Cork, and grew up in the Muskerry Gaeltacht
Annual official celebration of Irish begins March 17th
Ferdiad? Was he down the pub with Fintan and Fiachra for the rugby? And what does ‘ní tír gan teanga’ mean anyway? Irish revolutionary Pádraig Pearse wrote that a country without a language is a country without a soul, that there is no country without a language, and his words have been quoted endlessly by […]
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Michael Patrick O’Hickey was born in Carrickbeg, Waterford on the 12th March 1861. His mother died at an early age and his father remarried. He had an older borther and a younger half brother. He studied for the priesthood in St. Johns College Waterford and is ordainted a priest in 1884. He is an active […]