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2 unusual facts about Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha


Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha

According to Professor Leerssen, he was also one of the few native literati to embrace the new order even to the extent that he was in the employ of Trinity College for a period in the early to mid-1590s, and was also one of those involved with the Gaelic translation of the New Testament, undertaken for purposes of proselytization by the protestant archbishop of Tuam.

Maoilín Óg Mac Bruaideadha, was a Irish poet and man of letters, who translated the New Testament into Irish at Trinity College, Cambridge.



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