Ó Gormáin (Muiris)

d. c.1794
scribes, scholars

Irish scribe and schoolmaster who lived in Dublin

References (6)
Manuscripts (14)

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Sharpe, Richard, “Muiris Ó Gormáin’s book-lists and T. F. O’Rahilly”, Celtica 27 (2013): 114–118.

Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa, “An eighteenth-century Gaelic scribe’s private library: Muiris Ó Gormáin’s books”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110 C (2010): 239–276.

abstract:

The transcription and teaching career of the Gaelic scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin spanned three-quarters of the eighteenth century. From the 1750s onwards he became one of the most sought after scribes as he was employed by many of the leading Irish antiquarians, both Protestant and Catholic, to copy and translate Gaelic manuscripts. During the 1760s and 1770s he compiled detailed catalogues of the contents of books and manuscripts in his possession, together with his estimation of their value. Not only do these catalogues provide an important insight into the type of material he considered worth collecting but they also point towards the fact that he functioned as a book-dealer. The bilingual nature of these catalogues, and the large number of books in the English language they contained, challenge the argument first put forward by Daniel Corkery in the 1920s that the worlds of the Gaelic-speaking Irish and the English-speaking Protestant élite were divided from one another with little interaction between them, and Joep Leerssen's contention more recently that Gaelic Ireland was isolated from print culture in English.

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

Mahony, Robert, “Muiris Ó Gormáin and the Lords Lieutenant of Ireland”, Éigse 22 (1987): 25–36.

McCaughey, T. P., “Muiris Ó Gormáin’s English-Irish phrasebook”, Éigse 12 (1967–1968): 203–227.

Ó Mórdha, Séamus P., “Maurice O’Gorman in Monaghan: a second poem on Fr. Francis Mac Mahon”, Clogher Record 2:1 (1957): 20–24.

Corpas.ria.ie – Text: <link>

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 145 [1766]

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Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 147 [1766]

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MSS 23 F 7–8 (986, 987) [1783]

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 3 D [s. xviii]