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Ó hEodhusa (Giolla Brighde)

  • c.1570(?)–d. 1614
  • O'Hussey (Bonaventura), Bonaventura
  • Douai, Louvain
  • (agents)
Irish scholar and poet, who after being trained in Ireland, pursued his theological studies abroad, first at Douai and later at St Anthony's College, Louvain (est. 1607), where he was accepted as friar and later as lecturer by the religious name of Bonaventura; author of an Irish catechism, An teagasg críosdaidhe (1611/1614), the first Catholic work to be printed in Irish; a treatise on Irish grammar and prosody entitled Rudimenta grammaticae Hibernicae; and a number of vernacular poems.


See also: DouaiDouai
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Douai, Irish college
Douai, Irish college

Irish college in Douai, founded by Christopher Cusack in 1603.


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LouvainLouvain
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Louvain, St Anthony's College
Louvain, St Anthony’s College

Irish Franciscan college founded in 1607 by Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire and Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil.


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Mac Aingil (Aodh)Mac Aingil (Aodh)
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Ó hEodhasa family
Ó hEodhasa (Ó hEódhasa) family
learned family of poets, originally from Ulster

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Reference works
Breathnach, Diarmuid, and Máire Ní Mhurchú, Ainm.ie, Online: Fiontar, DCU, 2011–present. URL: <http://ainm.ie>. 
comments: The contents of the site are based on the series Beathaisnéis (a haon, a do, etc.) by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú.
[id. 1447. ‘Ó hEODHASA, Giolla Brighde (?–1614)’] direct link
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>. 
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Ó Muraíle (Nollaig) [id. 20653. ‘Ó hEodhasa [O'Hussey], Giolla Brighde [name in religion Bonaventura]’] direct link
Ó Corráin, Ailbhe, The Pearl of the Kingdom: a study of ‘A fhir léghtha an leabhráin bhig’ by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa, Oslo: Novus forlag, 2013. 67 pp.
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