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Life
1654-1754 [Proinsias Bhailis], b. prob. Co. Dublin; ord. Prague, 1677; lectured in philosophy and theology at Louvain and in Italy, becoming Guardian of the monastery at Clane, Co. Kildare, l703, Vice-Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Ireland in 1709, and Guardian of the Dublin monastery in 1714; compiled Irish-Irish dictionary in MS, 1706 (derived from Micheál Ó Cléirigh’s Sanasán Nua, 1643); died before completing his Latin-English-Irish dictionary, begun 1709; there are extant three manuscript copies of his Grammatica Anglo-Hibernica (1713), a work of grammatical learning based on a Latin treatise by Giolla Brighde Ó hEodhusa; The Antediluvian World (Dublin 1743), published with 411 subscribers. OCIL
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Commentary
Alan Harrison, ‘Nótaí faci Ghraiméir agus Foclóirí Scuitbhérla i mBaile Atha Cliath 1700-1740’, in Seosamh Watson, ed., Féilscríbhinn Thomáis de Bhaldraithe (1986); see also E. B. Fitzmaurice & A. G. Little, Materials for the History of the Franciscan Province in Ireland (Manchester 1920). [NO ODNB entry.]
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