What is recorded here
Tomás de Bhaldraithe was born in Ballincurra, County Limerick, on 14 December 1916, named for Thomas MacDonagh, an executed signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. He left the village at five, yet that small birthplace gave Ireland a scholar who shaped modern Irish lexicography.
Why this person is known: Irish scholar (1916–1996)
- Birthplace
- Ballincurra
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