Life
1889-1960 [Monsignor Browne; de Brún]; b. Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary,
ed. Dublin, Paris (doc. math., Sorbonne) and Gottingen, ord. 1913; Prof.
of Maths, Maynooth, 1914; Pres. Univ. College Galway (UCG), 1945, and
Chairman of DIAS; Director of Arts Council; translated from Greek, Latin,
French, and Italian into Irish; Inferno (1963); working on Divine
Comedy when he died; translated Sophocles’ Antigone (1926),
Oedipus Rex (Maynooth 1928) and Oedipus at Colonus (Dublin
1929); also Racine’s Athalie (Dublin 1930) and Corneille’s
Polyeucte (Dublin 1932); issued Beatha Iósa Críost,
with Fr. Ó Baoghealláin (Dublin 1929); Miserere,
long poem, ed. Máire Mac an tSaoi (Dublin 1971); An Odaisé
(1990) [Odyssey]; also published legal and medical documents; edited
Aftermath of Easter Week, a pamphlet with contributions from Oliver
Gogarty, Seamus O’Kelly, and Seamus O’Sullivan, to benefit Volunteers’
Independent Fund and Irish National Aid, suppressed by Govt.; there is
a portrait by Estella Solomons; Máire Mac an tSaoi is his neice.
DIW DIB DIH OCIL
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Works
Scholarly editions & bibliography, ed. two redactions
of Trí Biorghaoithe an Bhais; also Iomarbhaigh im bhFileadh
and Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Éirinn; with Myles Dillon
and Canice Mooney OFM, eds., Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the
Franciscan Library of Killiney (DIAS 1969), xxvi, 185pp; ed., Catalogue
of Irish Manuscripts in King’s Inns Library (DIAS 1972), 105pp.;
Poetry, Máire Mac an tSaoi, ed., Miserere (Dublin 1971). Reprints, Ciarán Ó Coigligh, ed., An Choiméide Dhiaga by Dainté Ailíghéirí, trans. Pádraig de Brún (BÁC: An Clóchomhar 1997), 380pp.; ed. Ó Coigligh, de Brún, trans. Odaisé (BÁC: Coiscéim 1990).
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Notes
Máire Mac an tSaoi spent ‘extended stays in Dun Chaoin
in the company of her beloved uncle Paddy [de Brún], for whom she
used to interpret at petrol pumps at the age of six, assuming this translator
of Racine had no English’. (See Mary O’Malley, ‘'Language
of the Heart’, interview with Mac an tSaoi, in The Irish Times
(26 Feb. 2000), Weekend.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)