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'''Seosamh Ó Duibhginn''' (1914- 1994) was born in ] in ]. He was best known as an editor and as a publisher throughout Ireland. He was imprisoned in Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast for membership of the IRA when he was nineteen; and was interned in the Curragh Camp during World War II. He was also a member of Ailtirí na hAiséirighe ('' English: Architects of the Resurrection'') a Gaelic language radical political movement. He settled in England before the second world war where he worked as a labourer in Liverpool and, on his return to Ireland, he worked as a handyman. He was internment in the Curragh Camp and whilst a prisoner he learnt ] from the renowned author ]; and later he studied the language further in ] where Ó Cadhain was one of his lecturers. In 1954, he was instrumental in the foundation of ], an Irish language publishing house, and as chairperson of Coiste na Leabhar (The Books’ Committee), he oversaw the publication of works from authors such as Máirtín Ó Díreáin, ] and ]. He began his own publishing career in 1960 when he edited the Irish ballad ]. Two other scholarly works followed (An Muircheartaigh, 1970 and Séamus MacGiollaChoille, 1972) and two autobiographies (Ag Scaoileadh Sceoil, 1962 and Tuairisc, 1982). Ó Duibhginn was devoted to the resurgance of Irish Gaelic and a member of various Gaelic organizations; ], ], and ]. He was employed as a part-time editor of ], the official journal of Conradh na Gaeilge until 1963 when he took a full-time post as Irish language editor for the ] group and contributed weekly columns, ‘An Mhuintir Seo Againne’ and ‘I Mo Thuairimse’. He retired in 1979. |
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