Buried in Oblivion: ‘Unknown Scholars’ from Castleisland
In 1935, a youthful John Francis (‘Jack’) MacMahon (1908-1963), son of Patrick MacMahon and Kilkenny-born school teacher Joanna (née Caughlin) MacMahon, and brother of playwright Bryan MacMahon (1909-1998), sought information from the public about old Gaelic poets from Kerry.[1] He explained that he had been studying and annotating poetry of 18th and 19th century […]
