Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé (2 February 1942 – 29 August 2013) was an
Irish-language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the ...
writer and musician from the
County Kerry Gaeltacht
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The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially reco ...
. He was the father of
Dáithí Ó Sé
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. He was one of the best known Irish writers of his generation, noted for his autobiography ''A Thig Ná Tit Orm''. His writings were used as part of the Irish-language element of the
Leaving Certificate in Irish state education, as a replacement for ''
Peig
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'' from 1995.
Biography
Born in Carrachán,
Baile na nGall,
County Kerry in 1942, Maidhc Dainín was the son of a fisherman from Baile na nGall called Dainín Dan Ó Sé and his wife from
an Daingean, Máire Ní Chinnéide. In 1958 at the age of 16, Maidhc moved to
England
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for a while, before moving to
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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United States
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in 1959. He returned to Ireland in 1969.
Writings
Autobiography
* ''A Thig Ná Tit Orm'' ("House Don't Fall on Me"; Baile Átha Cliath:
Coiscéim
Coiscéim (; "Footstep") is a prolific Dublin-based Irish-language publisher founded by writer, historian and language activist Pádraig Ó Snodaigh in 1980. With over 1,500 titles Coiscéim have published the largest number of titles amongst the 2 ...
1987)
Fiction
* ''Corcán na dTrí gCos'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1988)
* ''Tae le tae'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1990)
* ''Chicago driver'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1992)
* ''Dochtúir na bPiast'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1993)
* ''Greenhorn'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1997)
* ''Madraí na nocht gcos'' (Baile Atha Cliath: Coisceim 1998)
* ''Mair, a chapaill'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1999)
* ''Idir dhá lios'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2005)
* ''Is glas iad na cnoic'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1997)
* ''Lilí Frainc'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001)
* ''Mura mBuafam - Suatham'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coisceim 2003)
* ''Nuadha agus Breoghan ar neamh'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coisceim 2006)
* ''Binn Éadair'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2006)
* ''Seán Óg Máirtín'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2007)
* ''Lucinda Sly: úrscéal stairiúil'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2008)
* ''Cara go brách: Úrscéal'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 2010)
Poetry
* ''Citeal na stoirme'' (Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim 1991)
Music
* ''Ó Chicago go Carrachán'' (
Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Cló Iar-Chonnacht (CIC; ; "West Connacht Press") is an Irish language publishing company founded in 1985 by writer Micheál Ó Conghaile, a native speaker of Irish from Inis Treabhair in Connemara. He set the company up while still a student.
...
1999)
* ''Ó Thuaidh - Traditional Song and Music from West Kerry''
External links
Death of Kerry musician and author of ‘A Thig Ná Tit Orm’, Maidhc Dainín Ó Séat The Journal
at Irish Examiner
at Musical Traditions
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1942 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Irish musicians
20th-century Irish writers
21st-century Irish writers
21st-century Irish male writers
People from the Dingle Peninsula
Irish-language writers
Musicians from County Kerry