LANGAN'S HISTORICAL A-Z, INDEX & DIARY BY George Langan

Tag: WINDELE

  • JOSEPH O’LONGAIN 1816-1880. By George Langan.

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    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…

  • PAUL O’LONGAIN 1801-1866. By George Langan

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    Paul O’Longain. 1801-1866. Paul O’Longain. 1801-1866. Paul was the first to go to Dublin. He was employed by the Royal Irish Academy until his death, on August 18th, 1866. It was he also who taught Irish to the nineteenth century patriot, Thomas Davis. Kate Langan (who may have been married to McInerney) of Tullyglass, Glin, reared Peter and Paul. Thomas F.…