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Seosamh Ó Duibhginn (1914- 1994) was born in County Armagh in Ireland. 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 Irish Gaelic from the renowned author Máirtín Ó Cadhain; and later he studied the language further in Trinity College Dublin where Ó Cadhain was one of his lecturers. In 1954, he was instrumental in the foundation of An Clóchomhar Tta, 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, Seán Ó Tuama and Dónall MacAmhlaigh. He began his own publishing career in 1960 when he edited the Irish ballad Dónall Óg. 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; Conradh na Gaeilge, Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge, and Bórd na Leabhar Gaeilge. He was employed as a part-time editor of Feasta, the official journal of Conradh na Gaeilge until 1963 when he took a full-time post as Irish language editor for the Irish Press group and contributed weekly columns, ‘An Mhuintir Seo Againne’ and ‘I Mo Thuairimse’. He retired in 1979.