Tag: ‘An Leabhar Breac

Joseph O’Longain. 1816-1880.  The youngest son of Michael Og and reputed to be one of the greatest of all traditional scholars.  Another undated letter of ‘Launey’s’ to the Knight of Glin states – it was Joseph who executed for the R.I.A. his famous lithographic facsimiles of the oldest vellum manuscripts extant such as the ‘Book of…