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Douai, Irish college

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


See also: Ó hEodhusa (Giolla Brighde)
Ó hEodhusa (Giolla Brighde)
(c.1570(?)–d. 1614)
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.

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Brady, John, “Father Christopher Cusack and the Irish College of Douai, 1594–1624”, in: Sylvester OʼBrien [ed.], Measgra i gcuimhne Mhichíl Uí Chléirigh .i. Miscellany of historical and linguistic studies in honour of Brother Michael Ó Cléirigh, O.F.M., Chief of the Four Masters, 1643-1943, Dublin, 1944. 98–107.
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