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  2. #1129493

    Deir Deirdre Flanagan: ‘We shall remember him not only for the breadth of his scholarship and his willingness to share his expertise with the many who sought it, but also for his unaffected friendliness, his infectious good humour, his obvious enjoyment of life, his hospitality...

  9. #990955

    His scholarship will stand, but his friendship resonates.

    Schoolmate Bob – Alan Titley

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  10. #994154

    His father was Thomas Mulcahy, a farm labourer, and his mother was Margaret Burke.

    Remembering what others wish you to forget – Mícheál Ó Haodha

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  15. #1124233

    He could also charm them with his complete lack of pomposity and his innate, unstudied courtesy.

  16. #1127397

    Dúirt sé: ‘The great impetus which characterised his personality and his actions resulted from his both natural and conscious emphasis on his rural background in the West of Ireland.

  17. #1128160

    In spite of the touch of sadness, the unavoidable concomitant of anyone with intelligence and sensitivity who has observed the parting of the old ways and ideals in the Gaeltachts of Ireland, he always gave me the impression of being essentially a happy man, conscious of his own reliable sources of joy—his deep roots in his native ground, his firm anchorage in French and German culture, his wide reading and his beloved scholarship.

  19. #1310035

    His battle with TB throughout his life marked him and marked him out.

    Poet of prayer and pain – Pól Ó Muirí

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  21. #1132183

    At the subsequent election convention, Ó Foighil gave a rousing speech in which he declared that his hair was his own, his teeth were his own and other parts of his anatomy were working very well, too’​ (Irish Times).

  22. #1133802

    He was by nature very thorough, and he devoted his whole life to the solution of various problems in his chosen field of study; but because of his critical acumen and his very high standards he could not bring himself to believe that many of his conclusions could be regarded as final.

  23. #1988016

    Cé nach n-athraítear brí na bhfocal nó na n-aidiachtaí atá sa bhunleagan Béarla, tá uaim sa leagan Gaeilge nach bhfuil sa leagan Béarla (Rice 2019: 27): 'Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner' (1843: 2).

    Spriocphobail na spiorad atá imithe: Spléachadh ar na leaganacha Gaeilge de A Christmas Carol

  24. #991659

    His education in UCC he describes as “halcyon days”, and his love for some of his teachers and professors shines through.

    An Irishman in Africa – Alan Titley

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  27. #1128337

    Inevitably his style borrowed pace from that of his two older mentors but he also had his own very distinctive touch.

  28. #1128341

    Much of his success as a broadcaster was due to his detailed knowledge and understanding of what his colleague and friend, John O’​Donoghue, would call the Irish political mazurka.

  29. #1130779

    Quite apart from his own deliberate decision to publish a considerable body of scholarly work in Irish, Mac Niocaill was generous with his time and his expertise...

  30. #1131082

    His copy of Dunleavy’​s [B7] Catechism, from which he principally learned Irish, is crammed with his own marginal notes, showing his efforts at mastering the Irish language.

  31. #1132377

    ‘Master musician’​ a thugann an páipéar sin air: ‘With a stout stick as his only guide he toured the country for 50 years – his faithful fiddle being his only means of support’​.

  36. #1115238

    Owen McCarthy, otherwise Owen a Vereen; an eminent Poet, Historian, and Herald, in which his superior knowledge and singular Talents had rendered him very agreeable to such as had the Happiness of his Company; and his Death is very much lamented by his acquaintances'.

  37. #1116952

    His entries are all the more valuable for that reason, but it was an uncommon thing in his time for a man in his position to be able to write more than his name.

  38. #1117461

    Morísonus (Muiris Ó Maolchonaire)], that he was of the family of the Barons of Upper Ossory; that he was famed over the whole kingdom for his holiness of life and learning, and respected for his high descent; and that he was pursued into a cave by the heretics, who there cut off his head, placed it on a pole at the gates of a certain town and left his body to be devoured by the wild beasts.’​ Deir Carrigan freisin go raibh sé i mbéaloideas an cheantair go ndearnadh ár ar scata eaglaiseach i dTigh an Mhaoir, ceathrú míle ó Dharú.

  39. #1120358

    Is é tuairim Uí Áinle: ‘His more personal poetry – love-poems, laments for his dead wife and for departed friends, satires, messages of sympathy to his imprisoned clerical friends, complaints to the priests ofCook Street that his gloves had been stolen in the church, etc, etc, – tends to be rather shallow and not to achieve a sense of true involvement.’​ I measc na n-aortha tá cinn ar Dhiarmuid Ó Conchubhair [q.v.] agus ar Chathal Ó Luinín [q.v.].

  40. #1128833

    Deir Michael Ryan: ‘His ability to bridge the gap beween the worlds of scholarship and public administration meant that his services were eagerly sought by many cultural organizations and he generously gave of his time and experience when asked—the Royal Irish Academy (which he served as Vice-President and Council Member), the Cultural Relations Committee of the Department of Foreign Affairs (of which he was for a time chairman) are but two of the bodies which benefited from his participation.

  41. #1132815

    He was always occupied with one project or another and the culmination of his career was his magnificent Leabhar na hAiséirighe in which, in my opinion, his manifest genius transcended all his previous achievements.’​ In Southampton a rugadh é.

  42. #1129673

    Whenever weather permitted, his daily routine was generally something like this:- Mass, then visit any sick person under his charge, then without returning home, hunt up some old man to gather local history, what his grandfather told his father or himself, taking pencilled notes, and subsequently correcting or modifying the traditions thus received, by a slightly different version of same incidents obtained from some other old man; and perhaps that same afternoon he’​d be on his knees in some neighbouring churchyard rubbing over some semi-undecipherable tombstone trying to correct the narratives thus procured by the guidance of names and dates.’​ Deir Ó Fearghail gur dóigh go raibh cuairt tugtha aige ar gach baile fearainn i nDeoise Osraí sular chrom sé in 1897 ar History and antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory a scríobh.