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Known in Breton as Fañch an Uhel, a collector of Breton folklore and songs; author/compiler of works such as Gwerziou Breiz-Izel: chants populaires de la Basse-Bretagne (1868–74) and Kontadennoù ar Bobl (1847–92).

Quimper, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 43 [s. xix] • Quimper, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 44 [s. xix] • Quimper, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 45 [s. xix] • Quimper, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 46 [s. xix]

Lynch (Patrick) ... d. 1838 (c.1756–1838)

Irish scholar born in Co. Down as the son of a schoolteacher (Terence Lynch); taught Irish at Belfast Academy and published in the Irish-language magazine Bolg an tSoláir. Some of his contributions to scholarship on the Irish language went uncredited.

London, British Library, MS Additional 18747 [c. 1800]

Mac Bionaid (Art) (1793–1879)

Irish scholar, scribe and poet.

Mac Solaidh (Seón) (fl. early 18th century)

Irish scribe, of Stackallan (Co. Meath)

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 124 [s. xviii¹] • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 125 [s. xviii¹] • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 126 [s. xviii¹] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 40 (150) [1713] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 26 (756) [s. xviiiⁱⁿ] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 A 2 (757) [s. xviii^1/4] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 C 55 (1185) [s. xviii-xix] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 106 [1715]

MacLachlan (Ewen) (1773–1822)

Gaelic scholar and poet; librarian at the University and King's College, Aberdeen (1800-1818); head of the Grammar School (1819-1822); was involved in the compilation of John Macleod’s Gaelic-English dictionary.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.3.4 = McLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’ [1812/1813] • Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.3.5 = Leabhar Caol (‘Narrow book’) [1812]

Maurice (Hugh) ... 1775-1825 (1775–1825)

Welsh skinner and scribe.

London, British Library, MS Additional 15036 [before 1814] • London, British Library, MS Additional 15042 [1801] • London, British Library, MS Additional 15060 [1793 x 1825] • London, British Library, MS Additional 15062 [s. xviii] • London, British Library, MS Additional 15063 [s. xviii]

Ó Cléirigh (Seán) ... d. 1846 (1778–1846)

Seán (or John) Ó Cleirigh, Irish scribe who could probably claim descent from certain illustrious scholars of the Uí Chléirigh, even if his own testimony seems fuzzy and inconsistent. He appears to have had, perhaps inherited, an unknown number of Irish manuscripts written by or associated with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, five of which he brought to Dublin in 1817.

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 87 [c.1823] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 5 (66) [c.1838] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 4 (975) [1823]

Ó Conaill (Peadar) ... d. 1826 (1755–1826)

Irish lexicographer

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 21 (979) [s. xviii] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 83 [s. xviii-xix]

Later, secondary hand: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 44 (58) [1721-1722]

Ó Conaill (Tadhg) (fl. 19th c.)

Irish scribe

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 73 (M 73) [1824] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 74 (M 74) [1818]

Ó Conuill (Seághan) (fl. 18th/19th century)

Seághan Ó Conuill / John O'Connell, Irish scribe

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 47 (973) [1776]

Ó Dreada (Seán) (c.1770–1840)

Irish scribe and sculptor based in Cork.

Ó Floinn (Donnchadh) ... d. 1830 (d. 1830)

Donnchadh (Bán) Ó Floinn, Irish scribe, scholar and publisher from Cork.

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 296 [1763]

Ó hArragáin (Mícheál)

Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Ir 10 [c. 1800]

Ó hAthairne (Mícheál) ... poet and scribe

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 7 (660) [s. xix¹]

Ó Longáin (Mícheál Óg) (1766–1837)

Irish scribe; son of Mícheál mac Peadair Ó Longáin

Ó Longáin (Peadar) (1801–c.1860(?))

Peattair/Peadar Ó Longáin, scribe who was based in Co. Cork and belonged to the Ó Longáin family of scribes; son of Mícheál Óg and brother of Pól Ó Longáin.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 25 (258) [c.1809 × 1813] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 4 [1818] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 7 [1818]

Ó Longáin (Pól) (1801–1866)

scribe who was based in Co. Cork and belonged to the Ó Longáin family of scribes; son of Mícheál Óg and brother of Peadar Ó Longáin.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 10 (260) [1820] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 14 [c.1820]

Ó Longáin (Seosamh) (1817–1880)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 A 16 (802) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 A 17 (803) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6 (478) [1868] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 B 27 (645) [s. xix]

Ó Longáin family (s. xviii–xix)

An Irish family of scribes who together produced hundreds of Irish-language manuscripts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

London, British Library, MS Egerton 142 [1821]

Ó Moihill (Seadhan)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 29 (511) [c. 1808]

Ó Muláin (Seán) (s. xviii²–xix¹)

Irish teacher and scribe based in the city and county of Cork.

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 9 [c.1818] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 11 [1817] • Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 14 [c.1820]

Ó Rághailliodh (Micheál)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 2 (993) [s. xix]

Ó Súilleabháin (Amhlaoibh) (1783–1838)

Irish businessman, storyteller and schoolteacher, known for writing a diary, largely in Irish, between 1827 and 1835.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 50 (49) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 20 (50) [s. xix]

Ó Súilleabháin (Domhnall)

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 13 [c.1818]

Ó Tucaidh (Cathal)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 26 (196) [s. xix]

O'Curry (Eugene) (b. 1794–d. 1862)

Irish scholar

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 C 12 (625) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 C 16 (822) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 C 17 (823) [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 5 (477) [1839] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS RR 67 (1298) [1843] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS RR 67 (1299) [1843] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS RR 67 (1300) [1843] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1338 (H 2. 15c, 1338) [1812] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1424 (L 5. 1-17, 1424) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1426 (L 5. 19, 1426) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1427 (N 1. 2-2a, 1427) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1428 (L 5. 20, 1428) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1430 (I 6. 13, 1430) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1700 (N 1. 2a, 1700) [s. xix] • Dublin, University College Library, MS LA38 74 = Copy of a catalogue in the British Museum by Eugene O'Curry [s. xix]

O'Donovan (John) (1806–1861)

Irish scholar

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1420 (H 6. 16, 1420) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1422 (H 6. 20, 1422) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1424 (L 5. 1-17, 1424) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1701 (H 6. 25, 1701) [s. xix]

O'Flanagan (Theophilus) (c.1760–1814)

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 D 10 (1040) [s. xviii]

O'Kearney (Nicholas) (fl. 19th century)

Nicholas O'Kearney /Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh, Irish scholar

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 3 (523) [s. xix]

O'Rafferty (Barry)

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 45 [s. xix]

O'Reilly (Edward) (d. 1830)

Irish scholar and compiler of an Irish-English dictionary (1817)

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 45 [s. xix] • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 6 (977) [s. xix¹] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1395 (H 5. 23, 1395) [s. xix] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 106 [1715] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 152

Pughe (William Owen) (d. 1835)

Welsh scholar, antiquarian, author, lexicographer; author of a Welsh and English Dictionary (1803)

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 13240B [1783] • London, British Library, MS Additional 14956 [1806]

Reeves (William) (1815–1892)

Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1071 (1071) [s. xix] • Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1089 (1089) [s. xix]

Rogers (Charles) ... of Stonehouse

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cornish d. 1 [1861]

Scurry (James) (1790?–1828)

Irish: Séamus Ó Scoireadh, farmer, scholar and translator from Kilkenny.

London, British Library, MS Egerton 119 [1820] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 121 [1824] • London, British Library, MS Egerton 163 [1824]

Smith (Donald) ... 1756-1805 (1756–1805)

Scottish army surgeon, and Gaelic scholar, scribe and owner of manuscripts; was the younger brother of Rev. John Smith, who wrote and translated in Scottish Gaelic. Ronald Black (below, p. 11): “a native of Glenorchy and graduate of St Andrews, had been a surgeon in Crieff, with the Black Watch in America, and with the Breadalbane Fencibles at Enniskillen in Ireland. Now holding a staff appointment in Edinburgh, he had built up a big personal collection of old manuscripts, gleaned mainly in Ireland. He had written a ‘Disquisition on the Ancient Celts’ and an ‘Ancient History of the Scots’, neither of which was published”.

Tóibín (Eoghan)

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 10 [1817]

Vallancey (Charles) (d. 1812)

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1402 (H 5. 31, 1402) [s. xix]

Windele (John) (1801–1865)

Irish antiquarian and historian in Cork

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 M 11 (1116) [s. xix]