Muiris mac Seaán Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe, aka Father Muiris Ulltach, fl. 1602-1630s.

Spain

Ó Duinnshléibhe was one of two Donegal men named Father Muiris Ulltach who attended

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(d. 1602) on his death-bed in

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Castle,

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, with

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Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire.

Translator

In the 1620s, Ó Duinnshléibhe translated Francis O'Mahony's ''Brevis synopsis Provinciae Hyberniae FF Minorum'' into

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. This version was later made available to

Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (), sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the ''Annals of the Four Masters,'' assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Per ...

and his co-workers for the

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. In 1641, Ó Cléirigh wrote that * ''And Fr. Muiris Ulltach mac Seaáin, who was a long-time guardian of Donegal, translated the same into Irish.''

Bundrowes

As Ó Cléirigh indicated, Ó Duinnshléibhe was guardian of the Franciscan

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at Bundrowes,

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, from 1632 to 1635. In 1624, he * ''understood that Ireland's saints had been composed arcanely by the holy bishop ... he requested the Fr Provincial who was in that same convent of Donegal (he was by name also another Muiris Ulltach) to prevail upon ... Cú Choigcríche son of Diarmaid Ó Cléirigh who was well versed in Irish and who had some of the old books required for this task to put the saints in the order in which they now are after the manner of the Roman Martyrology as they themselves instructed.''

References

* ''The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century,'' p. 39, 72, 236–7, 246, 271, 283, 285, 290–1, Bernadette Cunningham, Four Courts Press, 2010. .

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005F/ {{DEFAULTSORT:O Duinnshleibhe, Muiris Mac Seaan Ulltach 17th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests People from County Donegal Irish writers Irish translators Translators to Irish Translators from Latin People of Elizabethan Ireland Irish-language writers