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Aodán Mac Póilin (1948 – 29 December 2016)[1] was an Irish language activist in Northern Ireland.
Background
Aodán grew up on the Norfolk Road in west Belfast with his two sisters, his mother who was an Irish speaker and his father who worked as a civil servant.[2] He attended the New University of Ulster from which he obtained a BA (Hons) and an M.Phil. in Irish studies. He helped to establish the Shaw's Road Irish-speaking community where he and his wife Áine lived.
Career
He was a teacher for a period and then became Director of the ULTACH Trust in 1990.[3]
He was active in the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages and the Community Relations Council, and was chairman of the first Irish-medium school in Northern Ireland.
Mac Póilin served on the boards of Cultures of Ireland, the Columba Initiative, Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta (the Council for Irish-medium Education), the Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge (the cross-border Irish language implementation body), and the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast.
Mac Póilin wrote and lectured extensively on various aspects of the Irish language, literature and culture. He made a major contribution to the revitalisation of the Irish language in Northern Ireland.[4]
Mac Póilin died on 29 December 2016.[5]
Books
- Styles of Belonging: the cultural identities of Ulster (1992) (editor)
- Ruined Pages, New Selected Poems of Padraic Fiacc (1994) (co-editor with Gerald Dawe)[6]
- The Irish Language in Northern Ireland (1997)
- The Great Book of Gaelic (2002) (member of the editorial panel)
References
- ^ "Aodan Mac Poilin-1948-2016". Lagan Online. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Aodan Mac Poilin our Generation". Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ ULTACH Trust
- ^ "Aodan Mac Poilin-An appreciation". Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ Mac Poilin-Trailblazer-promoted-irish-language-without-politics
- ^ 'The patron saint of the insane': The Northern Irish poet Padraic Fiacc, a fiery, uncompromising chronicler of the Troubles, is celebrating his 70th birthday with the publication of a new volume. Damian Smyth studies the critical renaissance of this literary outsider
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