About Peatsaí Ó Callanáin
Lived 1791 – 1865 (aged 73–74). Peatsaí Ó Callanáin was a poet.
Peatsaí Ó Callanáin (c. 1791–1865) was an Irish poet.
Younger brother of Marcas Ó Callanáin, Peatsaí is said to have been the better known of the two. He attended a local school in Craughwell, and later attended one or both the schools of Anthony O'Brien at Athenry, or of the (Dominican) Brothers at Esker, County Galway.
He was for a time a rival of Antoine Ó Raifteirí but they later became good friends.
In 1967, Seán Ó Ceallaigh - principal of Craughwell National School - produced an edition of their poems.
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Irish poet
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Peatsaí Ó Callanáin was born in 1791.
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Peatsaí Ó Callanáin died in 1865.
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