Peadar Ua Laoghaire

Father Peadar Ua Laoghaire or Peadar Ó Laoghaire (, first name locally ; 30 April 1839 – 21 March 1920), also anglicised as Peter O'Leary, was an Irish writer and Catholic priest, who is regarded today as one of the founders of modern literature in Irish.

Life He was born in Liscarrigane in the parish of Clondrohid , County Cork, and grew up speaking Munster Irish in the Muskerry Gaeltacht. He was a descendant of the Carrignacurra branch of the Ó Laoghaire of the ancient Corcu Loígde.

He attended Maynooth College and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1867. He became a parish priest in Castlelyons in 1891, and it was there that he wrote his most famous story, , and told it as a fireside story to three little girls. was the first major literary work of the emerging Gaelic revival. It was serialised in the Gaelic Journal from 1894, and published in book form in 1904.

Accordingly, he strongly promoted Cork Irish as what he saw as the best Irish for propagation among the people.

He died in Castlelyons

Works The following is a partial list of his works:

Ar nDóithin Araon, 1894 Mion-chaint, an easy Irish phrase book, compiled for the Gaelic League, 1899 Eólas ar áireamh, arithmetical tables in Irish, 1902 An Soísgéal as Leabar an aifrinn, 1902 (the liturgical readers from the Missal) Irish prose composition: a series of articles, including several upon the Irish autonomous verb, 1902 Aesop a Tháinig go hÉirinn, 1903 Sgothbhualadh, a series of articles in Irish reprinted from the "Leader", 1904 Séadna, 1904 (originally serialised in 1898) An Craos-Deamhan, 1905 An Bealach Buidhe, a drama, 1906 Tóruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghráinne, 1906 Niamh 1907 Eisirt, 1909 Seanmóin agus trí fichid, sermons for every Sunday and holy day of the year, 1909–10 An sprid: Bas Dalláin: Tadhg Saor, three short plays, 1911 An Cleasaidhe, 1913 Caitilina, 1913 Aithris ar Chríost, 1914 (a translation into Irish of Thomas à Kempis' The Imitation of Christ) Sliabh na mban bhFionn agus Cúan Fithise, 1914 Lughaidh Mac Con, 1914 Bricriu, 1915 Na Cheithre Soisgéil as an dTiomna Nua, 1915 (a translation into Irish of the Four Gospels) Mo Sgéal Féin, 1915 Guaire, 1915 Ag Séideadh agus ag ithe, 1918 An teagasg críosdaidhe, edited by Ua Laoghaire, 1920 Don Cíchóté, a partial translation of Miguel de Cervantes' early 17th century novel Don Quixote, 1921 Gníomhartha na nAspol, 1921 (a translation into Irish of the Acts of the Apostles) Lúcián, 1924 Sgéalaidheachta as an mBíobla naomhtha, 1924 (stories from the Bible) Críost Mac Dé, 1925 Sgealaidheacht na Macabéach, 1926 (the stories of the Maccabees from the Apocrypha) Aodh Ruadh, an adaptation of the life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill) originally by Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh in the 17th century, 1929 Notes on Irish words and usages Papers on Irish idiom: together with a translation into Irish of part of the first book of Euclid, by the late canon Peter O'Leary; edited by Thomas F. O'Rahilly. Cómhairle ár leasa, articles published in the "Leader" Mo shlighe chun Dé: leabhar urnaighthe

An article listing 487 of Ua Laoghaire's articles and other works was published in Celtica in 1954.