Life
?1542-?1587 [John Kearney; Seán Ó Cearnaidh, also Seaán [sic]; var. ?-?1600], b. Leyney, Co. Sligo; Irish Protestant divine; ed. Magdalene College, Cambridge, BA 1565; holy orders; treasurer of St Patrick’s Cathedral, 1570; issued Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma [A Gaelic Alphabet and Catechism] (2nd edn. 1571), being the earliest book in Irish printed in Ireland, using type financed by Elizabeth I; his translation of New Testament not extant. ODNB
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Works
Brian Ó Cuiv, ed., Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma [A Gaelic Alphabet and Catechism] (1994), facs. edn. with modern transcription. [see detaoçils]
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Commentary
Brian Ó Cuiv, ed., Aibidil Gaoidheilge & Caiticiosma, Seaán Ó Cearnaigh’s Irish Primer of Religion Published in 1571 (DIAS 1994), viii, 246pp. [rear cover pocket & insertion]; original 56 small pages with Gaelic chars. supplementing Roman ones, including an italic a; epistle to reader; orthographic explanations; Creed, Ten Commantments; duties to God and neighbour; Our Father; other prayers, and articles of faith with scriptural quotations; pages here set against careful transcription in mod. Roman type; with folded broadside poem in pocket by Pilip Ó hUiginn (‘Tuar feirge foighide Dhé’). [See Books Ireland, Dec. 1994, p.330].
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