Proinsias Ó Doibhlin, O.F.M. (1660–1724) was an
Irish
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Franciscan
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friar
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, poet and
scribe, who died c. 1724.
Biography
Possibly from Muinterevlin (now
Ardboe
Ardboe () is a large parish civil parish in east County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It borders the western shore of Lough Neagh and lies within the Mid Ulster District Council area. It is also the name of the local civil parish, which incorporat ...
), Ó Doibhlin was a prominent member of the Franciscan community at the Irish College(
College of the Immaculate Conception) in
Prague
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where he lectured in philosophy in 1697, where he remained as late as 1712. By 1714 he had returned to Ireland where he had become the
Guardian of the
Dungannon/
Donaghmore Franciscan house; in 1717 he was transferred to
Drogheda but was back as Guardian at Dungannon in 1720.
In 1724 he was appointed by the Franciscans as confessor to the
Poor Clares
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in Dublin and seems to have died shortly afterward.
He is the author of a poem, ''Gach croiceann libh dar feannadh'' (''Every skin you have fleeced''), criticising
Gearóid Mac Con Míde for the latters apparent slurs on the O'Neills of Tyrone. Composed sometime between 1716 and 1718, it was known among members of
Tadhg Ó Neachtain's literary circle, as a letter survives from
Seon Mac Solaidh to
Richard Tipper
Richard Tipper or Tupper ( fl. 1709 – after 1742) was an Irish scribe.
Biography
Richard Tipper lived at Mitchelstown, parish of Castleknock, County Dublin. According to Paul Walsh (priest)
Paul Walsh ( ga, An tAthair Pól Breathnach; 19 ...
where Mac Solaidh asks for a copy of the poem.
''Gach croiceann libh dar feannadh'' remains the only piece in Irish which can be ascribed to Ó Doibhlin.
See also
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Liam Inglis
*
Tadhg Ó Neachtain
References
*Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin (2000) ''Tyrone's Gaelic Literary Legacy'' in ''Tyrone: History and Society'', pp. 424–25.
External links
Gleanings from Irish manuscripts National Library of Scotland
17th-century births
1724 deaths
People from County Tyrone
Irish Friars Minor
17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
18th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
17th-century Irish writers
18th-century Irish poets
Irish-language poets
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