Mícheál Óg
Ó Longáin
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Life 1766-1837; b. Carrignavar, Co. Cork; son of Mícheál mac Peadair; orphaned young, his parents dying in 1770 and 1774; employed
as cowherd; returned to education, 1784; assisted United Irishmen, 1797-98; wrote for Whiteboys, 1785; Buachaillí Loch Garman [Boys of Wexford], 1798; m. 1800; worked as scribe, labourer, and teacher in Co. Cork;
settled in north Kerry and east Limerick, 1802-07; wrote on poverty and oppression; employed as a teacher and scribe by Rev. John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, 1814; copied manuscripts, 1817-1820; sons Peadar and Pól, and Seosamh, also became scribes; died. on his son Póls
11-acre holding in eleven acres in Knockboy in Carrignavar.
Criticism Breandán Ó Conchúir, Scríobhaithe Chorcaí 1700-1850 (1982)
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