Reference code
IE CA CP/3/4/3/2
Title
An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire Tribute
Date(s)
- c.1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 pp; Typescript with manuscript additions
Name of creator
(30 April 1839-21 March 1920)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A draft article on the life and work of An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The article suggests that ‘an Athair Peadar’s Irish of the People and the autonomous verb have won the day. So, it is not alone for the quantity of his works but for the wide field in which he worked that we have to claim for an Athair Peadar that he is the “Father of Modern Irish”’. The author added ‘He was ordained in 1867, the Fenian year, and his pays his tribute to the Fenian men with the reserve of the Catholic priest reminding us that in O’Donovan Rossa’s paper there was no word of Irish …’. The article appears to be incomplete.