Life
1571-1626 [Hugh MacCaghwell; Aodh MacCathmhaoil; Cavellus]; b. Co. Down;
early years on Isle of Man; made tutor to Hugh O’Neill’s sons;
went to Spain on defeat of Earls, entered Franciscan Order at Salamanca;
Catholic Archbishop of Armagh; ed. Salamanca, famous as reader in theology;
taught at Irish Franciscan College of St Anthony of Padua, at Louvain,
1616, Colgan and Patrick Fleming being among his pupils; travelled to
Rome in 1623, where he served as reader in theology at convent of Ara
Coeli, Rome, 1623; consecreted archb. of Armagh at Rome, 1626; d. when
preparing to go to Ireland; composed four Christmas carols in Irish; Latin
and theological works; Scáthain Sacrameinte na hAithridhe
[or Tractatus de Poenitentia et Indulgentiis] (Louvain 1618); Scoti
Commentaria (Antwerp 1620); Quaestiones in Metaphysicam &c
(Venice 1625); engaged in Franciscan defence of Duns Scotus [recte Eriugena]
against Dominican-inspired attacks of Bovius and Jansen, claiming him
as an Irishman, in Apologia pro Johanne Duns-Scoto adversus Abr. Bzovium
(Paris 1623). DNB DIW DUB OCIL
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Works
Scáthain Sacrameinte na hAithridhe [or Tractatus de Poenitentia
et Indulgentiis] (Louvain 1618); Scoti Commentaria (Antwerp
1620); Apologiam pro eodum vindicando ab injuriis allatis per Abrahamum
Bzovium (q.d.); and [inter alia] Apologiam Apologiae supradictae
pro Johanne Scoto Scriptae, in respondet Nicolao Jansenio Belgae
Ord. Praedicatorum, Abrahami Bzovii partes suscipienti, no sine gravi
Scoti et regni Hiberniae injuria. Prodiit Parisiis sub nomine Hugonis
Magnesii discipuli Cavelli apud Michaelum Sonnium, anno 1623 (Paris
1623); Quaestiones in Metaphysicam &c (Venice 1625).
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Criticism
Paul Walsh, Gleanings from Irish MSS (1930; 2nd edn. 1933).
Tomás Ó Cléirigh, Aodh Mac Aingil agus an Scoil Nua-Gheadhilge i Lobháin [Louvain] (Baile Atha Claith: An Gúm 1936; 1985).
Canneach Ó Maonaigh, ed., Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe, Institúid Ardéin, DIAS 1952 1952, p.5; Cronin, p.61.
Michael Cronin, Translating Ireland: Tranlsations, Languages,
Cultures (Cork UP 1996), p.61.
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Notes
Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing, gen. ed., Seamus Deane (Derry:
Field Day 1991), Vol. 1, selects Scáthán Shacramuinte
na hAithrí [The Mirror of the Sacrament of Repentence],
321-22; BIOG., 325 [no bibl.].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)