Énrí Ó Muirgheasa
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Énrí Ó Muirgheasa (Henry Morris) (14 January 1874 – 13 August 1945), was an Irish civil servant, folklore collector and writer.
Biography[]
Born in Cashlan East, Lisdoonan, Donaghmoyne County Monaghan was a son of Lúcas Ó Muirgheasa, a farmer, and Máire Nic Ward. He attended Lisdoonan school but learned to read and write as Gaeilge from his granduncle, Proinsias Ó Conghaile. He was appointed monitor at Lisdoonan school in 1888, where he established the first Monaghan branch of the Gaelic League. Ó Muirgheasa graduated as a teacher from St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, in 1900, obtaining a teacher post at St. Malachy's, Dundalk, in 1901, where he was one of the founders of the Louth Historical and Archaeological Society in 1903.
Family[]
Ó Muirgheasa married harpist and fellow teacher, Eibhlín Ní Raghallaigh/Helen O'Reilley of Dundalk in 1906. Their son, Colum, was born and died in 1907. Eibhlín died in 1908. In 1912, he remarried to Máire Woods from County Galway..
Bibliography[]
- Abhráin Airt Mhic Chubhthaigh, 1916
- Oíche áirneáil i dTír Chonaill, 1924
- Amhrán na Midhe, 1933
- Dánta Diadha Uladh, 1936
- Amhráin na Midhe le hÉnrí Ó Muirgheasa, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, Navan, Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015
External links[]
- http://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=93
- https://books.google.ie/books/about/%C3%89nr%C3%AD_%C3%93_Muirgheasa_1874_1945.html?id=T8kypwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
- http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/%C3%93_Muirgheasa_(%C3%89nr%C3%AD)
- http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000104583
- https://books.google.ie/books?
- http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?career=scholar%20at%20Armagh&articleId=a0049
- http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=7822
- 1874 births
- 1945 deaths
- 20th-century Irish people
- People from County Monaghan
- People from County Louth
- Linguists from Ireland
- Irish-language writers
- Irish scholars and academics
- Irish civil servants
- Irish folklorists
- Alumni of St Patrick's College, Dublin