Life
?1600-1654; b. an orphan, probably nr. Cashel Co. Tipperary; protégé
of the Butlers of Kilcash; ed. Dominican Convents of Coleraine and Limerick;
at St. Anthony’s College, Louvain, 1628; holy orders; returned to
Ireland, late 1630s; prior in Cashel, c.1637; assoc. with Gaelic Party
and Papal Nuncio Rinuccini in Rebellion of 1641; sided with the nuncio
against compromise of Confederation of Kilkenny with Ormond, and wrote
poems calling for rebellion and excoriating traitors; returned to Louvain
after 1646; isolated at Louvain during latter years; continued political
correspondence with Rinucinni urging Catholic determination in Ireland;
came under investigation for his ‘audacia’ in dispute over rotating
headship of college; suffered posthumous judgement against him in the
Dominican Order; d. ?Cashel. DIW FDA OCIL
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Criticism
An t-Athair Pádraigín Hacéad, ed. Tadhg Ó
Donnchadhda (Dublin 1916).
Máire Ní Cheallacháin, ed., Filíocht Phádraigín Haicéad (1962).
Seán Ó Tuama, Cathrúnan Phádraigín Haicéad, in The Irish Review, 23 (Winter 1998), pp.1-23.
Michael Hartnett, Haicéad (Gallery Press 1993).
Seán Ó Tuama, ‘Gaelic Culture in Crisis,
The Literary Response, 1600-1850’, in Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh,
et. al. eds., Irish Studies, A General Introduction (Macmillan
1980), pp.33-35.
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Notes
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish
Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 1,, BIOG, 325-6; also selects
‘The Emigrant’s Love for Ireland’, 283; ‘The Marigold’,
183-84; ‘Máire’s Death’, 284-85.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)