Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)

c.1670–c. 1752
scribes, authors, scholars
Dublin

Irish scribe and scholar, son of Seán Ó Neachtain.

See also: Seán Ó NeachtainÓ Neachtain (Seán)
(c.1640–1729)
Naughton (John)
Irish poet, prose writer, and teacher; was born in Co. Roscommon and settled in Dublin.
See more Anthony RaymondRaymond (Anthony)
(1675–1726)
Irish Protestant minister, scholar and patron of native Irish scholars
See more Stiabhna RíghisRíghis (Stiabhna)
(s. xvii^ex–xviii¹)
Stiabhna Ríghis/Rís or Stephen Rice, a Munster scribe who became active in Dublin and befriended Tadhg Ó Neachtáin.
See more Richard TipperTipper (Richard)
(d. 1730)
Tuibear (Risteard), Tupper (Richard)
Irish scholar, scribe and antiquarian from Mitchelstown (Co. Dublin).
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Mac Mathúna, Liam, The Ó Neachtain window on Gaelic Dublin, 1700–1750, Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures, 4, Cork: CSCL, 2021.

abstract:

Seán Ó Neachtain and his son Tadhg were at the centre of Gaelic scholarship in Dublin in the first half of the eighteenth century. Much of their work is infused by the impulses of modernity and sensibility, which permeated the city’s intellectual life at the time. The numerous extant manuscripts, which the Ó Neachtains and their learned colleagues wrote, bear testimony to that community’s industry, not only in preserving the literature of earlier periods but in creating new works. This is therefore an account of Gaelic scholarship in an urban setting, told from the inside.

Mac Mathúna, Liam, “Muintir Neachtain, an nua-aoiseacht agus dúchas Gaelach Bhaile Átha Cliath”, Dublin Historical Record 68:2 (2015): 206–225.

abstract:

A substantial minority community of Irish speakers lived in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. This community included a vibrant cultural circle of some thirty scholars centred around Seán Ó Neachtain and his son Tadhg, both of whom were also teachers and scribes. This article analyses the links between the world-view and intellectual life of these urban Irish speakers and the general modernising tendencies which gathered pace as the city expanded after the Battle of the Boyne. It undertakes this by examining many of the works written by the Ó Neachtains, the lives they led and the legacy they bequeathed to later generations. The balance between the old and the new, that is, the transcribing of traditional Gaelic material from earlier manuscripts alongside the development of innovative compositions and genres, is surveyed in order to identify specific traits and characteristics of the literature and scholarship which the Ó Neachtains created, nurtured and espoused. It shows, for instance, how Seán's proto-novel, Stair Éamuinn Uí Chléire, incorporated complex passages of Irish/English dialogue, reflecting the sociolinguistic realities of the period. The writings of the Ó Neachtains and their circle shed light from within on the bilingual world in which they lived, both the public sphere and the private domain. Drawing in particular on the evidence for Tadhg's interaction with the Dublin English-language newspapers of his day, and Eólas ar an Domhan, a textbook on world geography which he authored, the global range of the Ó Neachtains' interest is illustrated. Finally, the essay also highlights the strength of the links between the Ó Neachtains and the Catholic clergy and how the general modernising outlook and enhanced sensibility of their family and community networks afforded Dublin's eighteenth-century Irish-speaking women new opportunities to express themselves creatively in poetic composition.

Mac Mathúna, Liam, “Tadhg Ó Neachtain agus comhfhreagras cairdis, mí Feabhra 1726”, Studia Hibernica 37 (2011): 107–120.

Ó Háinle, Cathal, “Seán agus Tadhg Ó Neachtain: cleamhnas agus gaol”, Éigse 35 (2005): 53–70.

Nic Cárthaigh, Emma, “Tadhg Ó Neachtuin: a man of lists”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 208–224.

Harrison, Alan, “Ó Neachtain, Tadhg (c.1670–c.1752)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/70322>.

Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>.

comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.

Ó Buachalla, Breandán, “Seacaibíteachas Thaidhg Uí Neachtain”, Studia Hibernica 26 (1991–1992): 31–64.

– scribal texts edited from multiple manuscripts: <link>

Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa, “Irish scholars and scribes in eighteenth-century Dublin”, Eighteenth-Century Ireland 4 (1989): 41–54.

Harrison, Alan, “Nótaí faoi ghraiméir agus foclóirí Scuitbhéarla i mBaile Átha Cliath 1700–1740”, in: Seosamh Watson (ed.), Féilscríbhinn Thomáis de Bhaldraithe, Dublin: An Coláiste Ollscoile, 1986. 48–69.

Ó Háinle, Cathal, “Ar bhás Sheáin Uí Neachtain”, Éigse 19:2 (1983): 384–394.

Williams, N. J. A., “Cath Bearna Chroise Brighde”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 38 (1981): 269–337.

Ó Cléirigh, Tomás, “A student’s voyage”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 103–115.

Ó Cléirigh, Tomás, “Leaves from a Dublin manuscript”, Éigse 1 (1939–1940): 196–209.

OʼRahilly, T. F., “Irish scholars in Dublin in the early eighteenth century”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:3 (1912–1913): 156–162.

CELT – Edition: <link> – Edition of the poem (pp. 158-161): <link>

Dublin, King's Inns, MS 20 [c. 1720]

scribes:Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 24 [s. xviii]

scribes:Ó Dálaigh (Aodh)Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 8 (785) [s. xviii]

scribes:Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)