Pádraig Ó hÉigeartaigh

A native of County Kerry, Ó hÉigeartaigh emigrated to Springfield, Massachusetts, as a child. He commemorated the death of his son with the poem My Sorrow, Donnchadh, which was published around 1900 in An Claidheamh Soluis, apparently translated by Padraig Pearse.

Pádraig Ó hÉigeartaigh, Irish poet, 1871–1936.

References

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, pp. 316–317, p. 407, ed. Thomas Kinsella, Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-280192-0.

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