Énrí Ó Muirgheasa

Énrí Ó Muirgheasa (Henry Morris) (14 January 1874 – 13 August 1945), was an Irish civil servant, folklore collector and writer.

Biography

Born in Cashlan East, Lisdoonan, Donaghmoyne County Monaghan was a son of Lúcas Ó Muirgheasa, a farmer, and Máire Nic Ward. He attended Lisdoonan school but learned to read and write as Gaeilge from his granduncle, Proinsias Ó Conghaile. He was appointed monitor at Lisdoonan school in 1888, where he established the first Monaghan branch of the Gaelic League. Ó Muirgheasa graduated as a teacher from St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, in 1900, obtaining a teacher post at St. Malachy's, Dundalk, in 1901, where he was one of the founders of the Louth Historical and Archaeological Society in 1903.

Family

Ó Muirgheasa married harpist and fellow teacher, Eibhlín Ní Raghallaigh/Helen O'Reilley of Dundalk in 1906. Their son, Colum, was born and died in 1907. Eibhlín died in 1908. In 1912, he remarried to Máire Woods from County Galway..

Bibliography

  Abhráin Airt Mhic Chubhthaigh, 1916
 Oíche áirneáil i dTír Chonaill, 1924
 Amhrán na Midhe, 1933 
 Dánta Diadha Uladh, 1936
 Amhráin na Midhe le hÉnrí Ó Muirgheasa, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, Navan, Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015

External links
http://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=93
https://books.google.ie/books/about/%C3%89nr%C3%AD_%C3%93_Muirgheasa_1874_1945.html?id=T8kypwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/%C3%93_Muirgheasa_(%C3%89nr%C3%AD)
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000104583
https://books.google.ie/books?
http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?career=scholar%20at%20Armagh&articleId=a0049
http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=7822

Category:1874 births
Category:1945 deaths
Category:20th-century Irish people
Category:People from County Monaghan
Category:People from County Louth
Category:Linguists from Ireland
Category:Irish-language writers
Category:Irish scholars and academics
Category:Irish civil servants
Category:Irish folklorists