Mícheál Mac Craith
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Rugadh Mícheál Mac Craith sa Lorgain, Co. Ard Mhacha agus chaith sé a óige i gCairlinn agus i nDún Dealgan. Chuaigh se isteach sna Proinsiasaigh tar éis freastal ar an meánscoil i gColáiste San Proinsias, Rinn Mhic Ghormáin. Bhain sé BA agus MA amach sa Léann Ceilteach i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh agus bronnadh Scoláireacht Theach an Ard-Mhéara air sa bhliain 1967. Rinne sé a chuid diagachta sa Róimh agus i Lobháin agus oirníodh ina shagart é sa bhliain 1974. Ceapadh mar léachtóir é i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge i nGaillimh sa bhliain 1977 agus bronnadh an dochtúireacht air as taighde a dhéanamh ar fhoinsí iasachta na nDánta Grá. Sa bhliain 2008 bhronn An Chomhairle um Thaighde in Éirinn sna Daonnachtaí agus sna hEolaíochtaí Sóisialta comhaltacht shinsearach air chun bliain a chaitheamh sa Róimh d’fhonn téacs Thaidhg Uí Chianáin ar Imeacht na nIarlaí a scagadh. Is mór aige litríocht an Renaissance, saothar Gaeilge an Leasúcháin Chreidimh idir Chaitliceach agus Phrotastúnach, an Seacaibíteachas, an tOisíneachas agus litríocht chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge. Tá go leor alt scríofa aige sna réimsí seo. Ó d’éirigh sé as léachtóireacht tá sé mar chaomhnóir ar Choláiste San Isidoro sa Róimh.
Mícheál Mac Craith is a Franciscan priest who was Professor of Modern Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway from 1997 until his retirement in August 2011. He studied in Galway, Rome and Louvain. His books are Lorg na hIasachta ar na Dánta Grá (1989), a study of the foreign influences on Gaelic courtly love poetry, and Ón Oileán Rúin go Rún an Oileáin (1993), a study of the poetry of Máirtín Ó Direáin. He is interested in the Renaissance, Counter-Reformation literature, Jacobitism, Ossianism and contemporary Gaelic literature, and has published extensively in these areas. In 1997 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In 2003 he was Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. In 2008 the Irish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences awarded him a Senior Research Fellowship to investigate the period spent by the exiled earls, O’Neill and O’Donnell, in Rome. He is now Guardian at Collegio San Isidoro in Rome.