Séamus Ó Súilleabháin () was an Irish

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, writer and

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. Ó Súilleabháin transcribed and wrote down a great deal of material from several different genres; songs, poems,

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lore, stories such as '' Cath Bruíon Caorthainn'' and ''

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''. One such manuscript that survives states at the end that

''I have thus finished this book, for the Revd. Joseph Baylee, rector of Holy Trinity Church (
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) and headmaster of the
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Rev. Baylee was his patron, and lived in Oldtown, Chuallacht na gCairde, County Limerick. He was stridently

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, and said that the

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faith was "spiritual tyranny which they, the said unhallowed and unsantified Philistines, have exercised in England, Ireland and Scotland." He seems to have lived for a time in

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, and may have been a schoolmaster.

References

* ''Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700-1900'', William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996 Writers from County Galway 19th-century Irish writers Year of birth missing Irish translators {{Ireland-bio-stub