Life
?1802-?1865 [var. Kearney OCIL]; b. Thomastown, nr. Dundalk; issued Prophecies
of Columbkille, exposed as forgeries; verse includes ‘Ar sáile
anonn’ and ‘Cumha na Mathara’; member of Ossianic society,
and editor of texts for John O’Daly and that society. IF OCIL
Works
The Prophecies of Saints Colum-Cille, Maeltamlacht, Ultan, Senan, Bearcan
and Malachy, as compiled, translated and annotated by … N. O’Kearney,
&c. (Dublin: J. Duffy & Co. 1925) [printed in Holland], xii+137pp.;
8o. [BML].
Criticism
Seán Ó Dúfaigh & Diarmaid Ó Doiblin, Nioclás
Ó Cearnaigh, Beatha agus Saothar (Baile Átha Cliath:
An Clóchomhar 1993).
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Notes
Ireland
in Fiction, ed. Stephen Brown (Dublin: Maunsel 1919), The Battle
of Gabhra (John O’Daly 1853), edited for the first time and printed
for Ossianic Society with intro. and trans. [Fianna finally defeated by
Cairbre, King of Leinster, 283 AD]; The Story of Conn-eda, or The Golden
Apples of Loch Erne, from the Irish (London: J. R. Smith 1855), 17pp.,
rep. from Proc. of Cambrian Arch. Assoc.; The Festivities at the House
of Conan of Ceann-Sleibhe (Dublin: John O’Daly 1855); also ed.,
Transactions of the Ossianic Soc. I (1854).
The Festivities of Conan of Ceann-Sleibhe in the County of Clare [Trans. of the Ossianic Soc.] (1855), copy owned by Edward Fitzgerald of Youghal, with his annotations [Hyland 224].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)