Pól Ó Muiri (b 1965) is an Irish journalist, poet, and

Irish-language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenou ...

editor of ''

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Biography

Ó Muiri was born in

Belfast Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel ...

in 1965. He attended

St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School (St Mary's CBGS) is a Roman Catholic boys' grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. History The origins of the school can be traced to St Mary's School which was established in Divis Street by ...

and then

Queen's University Belfast The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of ...

from which he was awarded a BA (Hons) in Celtic Studies and Scholastic Philosophy followed by a PhD in Celtic Studies. In 1991, he was given the Sam Hanna Bell Fellowship in Literature from the Cultural Traditions Group.

Career

Ó Muiri is a journalist and currently Irish language editor of

. He writes principally in Irish, his works covering poetry and short fiction in both languages, as well as a biography of

Seosamh Mac Grianna Seosamh Mac Grianna (1900 or 190111 June 1990) was an Irish writer. He was born into a family of poets and storytellers, which included his brothers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seán Bán Mac Grianna, in Rann na Feirste (Ranafast), a village in The ...

Bibliography

*''Faoi Scáil na Ríona'', 1991 *''Dinnseanchas'', 1992 *''Ginealach Ultach'', 1993 *''Siosafas: Gearrscéalta'', 1995 *''Abhar Filíochta'', 1995 *''D-Day'', 1995 *''A Flight from Shadow: The Life & Works of Seosamh Mac Grianna'', 1999 *''Is Mise Ísmeáél'', 2000 *''Na Móinteacha'', 2004 *''Seosamh Mac Grianna: Míreanna Saoil'', 2007 *''Cold War'', 2009

References

External links

*http://laganpress.co/authors/pol-o-muiri *https://tuairisc.ie/scribhneoiri/polomuiri/ *https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/archive/pol-o-muiri/ *http://www.coisceim.ie/acht.html {{DEFAULTSORT:OMuiri, Pol People educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Journalists from Belfast Irish newspaper editors The Irish Times people Irish-language writers 1965 births 20th-century Irish writers 21st-century Irish writers Living people