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Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Máirtín Ó Cadhain was an Irish writer, literary critic, university teacher, translator and poet (1906–1970). He was born at An Spidéal and died at Dublin.

Also recorded as Aonghus Óg; Mairtin O Cadhain; Aonghus Og; Breallianmaitharsatuanógcadhanmaolpote; Micil Ó Moingmheara; Do na Fíréin.

Máirtín Ó Cadhain in brief

Born
1906
Died
1970
Known for
writer, literary critic, university teacher, translator and poet
Place of birth
An Spidéal
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Identity and origins

The authorities additionally record the headings Aonghus Óg, Mairtin O Cadhain, Aonghus Og, Breallianmaitharsatuanógcadhanmaolpote and Micil Ó Moingmheara. His recorded languages were Connacht Irish, English and Irish.

He married Máirín Ní Rodaigh.

Catalogued works

6 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Barbed Wire. The Dirty Dust. The Road to Brightcity. Diskan – Agallamh. Cois Caoláire. Cré na cille.

Literature

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Beathaisnéis: Cathain a rugadh Máirtín Ó Cadhain?, Comhar, 2005. Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009. Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN, Changing States, 2005. Máirtín Ó Cadhain agus Polasaí Agóide, Comhar, 1971. Between Folk and Lore: Performing, Textualising and (mis)Interpreting the Irish Oral Tradition, Estudios Irlandeses, 2017. 'Dead Clay and Living Clay': Máirtín Ó Cadhain's criticisms of the work of the Irish Folklore Commission, Approaching Religion, 2014. 'A Joycean Smutmonger': Echoes of Joyce in Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Rural Modernism, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2024. Léirmheas: Gallán an Ghúim: Caidreamh an Stáit le Scríbhneoirí na Gaeilge: Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Seosamh Mac Grianna agus Seán Tóibín, COMHARTaighde, 2021. Ar mo chéad fhéachaint isteach dom in Sáirséal agus Dill, COMHARTaighde, 2015. Feidhm na hamhránaíochta agus an damhsa i luath-shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain, COMHARTaighde, 2015. Coercive Confinement and Irish Languages: Ó Cadhain, Behan, Heaney, Okorie, Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

4 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Cois Gaolaire (1953) — Internet Archive. Athnuachan (1995) — Internet Archive. Grabgefluster (2017) — Internet Archive. An tSraith ar Lar (1970) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 22 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1906Máirtín Ó Cadhain born at An Spidéal.
  2. 1953Cois Gaolaire digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1970Máirtín Ó Cadhain died at Dublin.
  4. 1970An tSraith ar Lar digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1995Athnuachan digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Beathaisnéis: Cathain a rugadh Máirtín Ó Cadhain?, Comhar, 2005

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    Máirtín Ó Cadhain agus Polasaí Agóide, Comhar, 1971

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN, Changing States, 2005

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Open Library author record for Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Internet Archive), 2 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 7 articles naming Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

    open access index · Unverified

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    Internet Archive, 4 digitised items catalogued under Máirtín Ó Cadhain as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q560494: Máirtín Ó Cadhain

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10.

    “Máirtín Ó Cadhain”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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