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  • s. xx–xxi
  • 1644–1692
  • Aberfoyle
Episcopalian minister of Aberfoyle, Gaelic scholar and folklorist. He supervised the first combined edition of the Irish translations of the OT and NT, An Bíobla Naomhtha, in London in 1690. Kirk had the text transliterated from Irish into Roman script so that it might serve readers in the Scottish Highlands, although it remained an Irish text.
Church of Scotland minister who advocated the use of Scottish Gaelic and played an important role in Robert Kirk’s translation of the Bible into Scottish Gaelic.
  • 1589–1661
  • Cell Alaid
Vicar-general to the archbishop of Tuam and later, bishop of Killala (consecr. 1645). After Oliver Cromwell’s arrival (1649), he was forced to flee and having spent a time in imprisonment, was exported to the continent (1655), where he found refuge in Nantes and Rennes.