Liam Ó hOisín, Irish

Irish people

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 scribe

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 and translator, fl. 1825-1871.

Ó hOisín was a native of Cummer, County Galway

County Galway

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 and a prolific scribe active in the middle years of the 19th century. During his lifetime he recorded poems (including selections by Antoine Ó Raifteiri

Antoine Ó Raifteiri

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 and the brothers Marcus and Peatsaí Ó Callanáin

Peatsaí Ó Callanáin

Peatsaí Ó Callanáin was an Irish poet.Younger brother of Marcas Ó Callanáin, Peatsaí is said to have been the better known of the two...

); Fenian

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 lore and sagas

Sagàs

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 from Irish mythology

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; and verse in both Irish and English. One of his books was obtained by a later scribe, Seán Mag Fhloinn

Seán Mag Fhloinn

Seán Mag Fhloinn, Irish scribe, fl. 1843-1915.Mag Fhloinn was a native of Cummer, County Galway. His transcriptions included songs attributed to Antoine Ó Raifteiri, poems by Thomas Moore, and grammar.-See also:...

 (1843–1915) who stated that "I got his old book full of charms ('owree' he calls them), poems, recipts and curiosities of all kinds in phonetic Irish and in English, from my friend Mr. Glynn of Tuam

Tuam

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.

Ó hOisín and Hession

Liam Ó hOisín bore the same surname as the first Archbishop of Tuam

Archbishop of Tuam

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, Áed Ua hOissín (died 1161). Ó hOisín is rendered as Hession in Galway and according to Edward Mac Lysaght it is found mostly in north Galway and south County Mayo

County Mayo

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. Two recent notable Hessions are

• James Hession
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   of Tuam
  Tuam
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  , Fine Gael
  Fine Gael
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   Teachta Dála
  Teachta Dála
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  , 1912-1999
• Paul Hession
  Paul Hession
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  , Irish international track and field athlete, born 1983 in Athenry
  Athenry
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Reference

• The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght
  Edward MacLysaght
  Edward MacLysaght was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames and made him well known to all those researching their family past.-Early life:Edward was born in Flax Bourton...
  
  , Dublin, 1978.
• Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700-1900, William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996