Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig (1927– ), poet and translator; born in Ballymore, Dingle, Co. Kerry, and educated at Maynooth, and UCC, he was ordained in 1953. He was appointed Professor of Early and Middle Irish at Maynooth in 1959. With George Thomson he translated Augustine's Confessions as Mise Agaistín (1967).

Ponc (1970) was a collection of poems, followed by Rúin (1971) and Deora Dé (1988). Ag Siúl na Teorann (1985) was a novel, and Gaililí agus Iarúsailéim sa Bhaile Againn (1999) a long poem. His crowning achievement was An Bíobla Naofa (1981), the Maynooth Irish Bible, of which he was chief translator.