Liam Ó Rinn

Liam Ó Rinn (20 November 1886 – 3 October 1943;

Life and career Ó Rinn was born in Ballybough, Dublin, one of five sons and one daughter of Patrick Ring, a Dublin Metropolitan Police officer from Kilkenny, and his wife Elizabeth (née Griffith) from Laytown, County Meath. He attended St. Joseph's C.B.S. in Fairview, leaving aged 14 to work as a solicitor's clerk.

Art Ó Maolfhábhail noted his influence in writing about the modern urban world, including coining many new terms.

Amhrán na bhFiann

Although Ruth Sherry says Ó Rinn's translation of "The Soldiers' Song" was first published in An tÓglach (the magazine of the Irish Defence Forces) on 3 November 1923, Other translations had already been made into literary Classical Irish, whereas Ó Rinn favoured the living vernacular spoken in Gaeltacht areas. both the English and Irish texts appear in Facts about Ireland, published by the Department of Foreign Affairs, and on the official website of the Department of the Taoiseach.

Works Translations into Irish The Books of the Polish People and of the Polish Pilgrimage by Adam Mickiewicz Prose poems by Ivan Turgenev Rise of the Irish Volunteers by Maurice George Moore Stars in Their Courses by James Hopwood Jeans Intensive Culture of Crops by Henri de Courcy Hygiene by Richard Hayes Our Country's Story by A. B. Ochiltree Ferguson The Law-Suit by Roderich Benedix "The Soldier's Song" by Peadar Kearney Turus go Páras Peann agus Pár Mo chara Stiofán

Other Slighe na Saoirse (Irish Volunteers drill guide)