Life
1654-1754 [Proinsias Bhailis], b. prob. Co. Dublin; ord. Prague, 1677;
lectured in philosophy and theology at Louvain and in Italy, becoming
Guardian of the monastery at Clane, Co. Kildare, l703, Vice-Provincial
of the Franciscan Order in Ireland in 1709, and Guardian of the Dublin
monastery in 1714; compiled Irish-Irish dictionary in MS, 1706 (derived
from Micheál Ó Cléirigh’s Sanasán
Nua, 1643); died before completing his Latin-English-Irish dictionary,
begun 1709; there are extant three manuscript copies of his Grammatica
Anglo-Hibernica (1713), a work of grammatical learning based on a
Latin treatise by Giolla Brighde Ó hEodhusa; The Antediluvian World
(Dublin 1743), published with 411 subscribers. OCIL
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Criticism
Alan Harrison, ‘Nótaí faci Ghraiméir agus Foclóirí
Scuitbhérla i mBaile Atha Cliath 1700-1740’, in Seosamh Watson,
ed., Féilscríbhinn Thomáis de Bhaldraithe
(1986); see also E. B. Fitzmaurice & A. G. Little, Materials for
the History of the Franciscan Province in Ireland (Manchester 1920).
[NO DNB entry.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)