Life
1922-85; ed. St Malachy’s Belfast, QUB and Maynooth; ordained; taught
at St Malachy’s and St Mac Nissi College, Garron Towers, becoming
president in 1972; learnt Irish at QUB and Gaeltacht; won Oireachtas prize
with short story in 1972; Seans Eile (1963), a novel of clerical
life, issued under the pseudonym Pádraig Uiséir (his mother’s
name being Ussher), and Kao er wen (1965), an account of Bishop
Galvin (d.1882-1956), founder of Maynooth mission to China. [OCIL]
Notes
Greagóir Ó Duill, ed., Filíocht Uladh 1960-1985
(Coiscéim 1986), selects poems; bibl. Pádraig Mac Caomhánaigh
(Co. Antrim 1922); novel, Seans Eile, pseud. Pádraig Uiséir
(Sáirséal agus Dill 1963).
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