Patrick S. Dinneen
Patrick Stephen Dinneen (Irish: Pádraig Ua Duinnín; 25 December 1860 – 29 September 1934) was an Irish lexicographer and historian, and a leading figure in the Gaelic revival.
Dinneen was born near Rathmore, County Kerry.[1] He was educated at Shrone and Meentogues National Schools and at St. Brendan's College in Killarney.[2] He joined the Society of Jesus in 1880 and was ordained a priest in 1894, but left the order in 1900 to devote his life to the study of the Irish language while still remaining a priest. After his ordination, he taught Irish, English, classics, and mathematics in three different Jesuit colleges, including Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Clane, Co. Kildare.
He was a leading figure in the Irish Texts Society, publishing editions of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, poems by Aogán Ó Rathaille and Piaras Feiritéar, and other works. He also wrote a novel and a play in Irish, and translated such works as Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol into Irish. His best known work, however, is his Irish-English dictionary, Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla, which was first published in 1904.[3] The stock and plates of the dictionary were destroyed during the Easter Rising of 1916, so Dinneen took the opportunity to expand the dictionary. A much larger second edition, compiled with the assistance of Liam S Gogan, was published in 1927.[4] Dinneen's request to the Irish Texts Society to include Gogan's name on the title page was refused.[5] Gogan continued to work on the collection of words up to his death in 1979. This complementary dictionary was published online in 2011.[6]
Fr Dinneen died in Dublin at the age of 73 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Noel O'Connell, 29 September 1984, Father Dinneen, his dictionary and the Gaelic Revival. Accessed 31 December 2007
- ^ Letter from his grandniece Bridie Dinneen
- ^ Welch, Robert (1996). The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280080-9.
- ^ Foclóir Gaedilge agus Béarla: an Irish-English dictionary, being a thesaurus of the words, phrases and idioms of the modern Irish language; compiled and edited by Patrick S. Dinneen. New edition, revised and greatly enlarged. xxx, 1344 p. Dublin: published for the Irish Texts Society by the Educational Company of Ireland, 1927.
- ^ http://gogan.ie/dinneens-letter.php
- ^ http://gogan.ie/credits.php?lang=en
- ^ Location: Plot No: CH 83.5, St Bridget's, CPS Coordinates: 53°22'19.48"N 6°16'44.04"W
External links
- Works by An tAthair Pádraig Ó Duinnín at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Patrick S. Dinneen at Internet Archive
- Scans of Dinneen's Irish-English dictionary (first edition of 1904)
- Searchable version of 1927 edition of Dinneen's Irish-English dictionary
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