Tomás Ó Raghallaigh

Who is Tomás Ó Raghallaigh?

Tomás O Raghallaigh Irish short story writer, died 1966.

O Raghallaigh was born near Moycullen, and became an organiser for the Galway Gaelic League in the early 20th century. He was a regular contributor to An Stoc, the Irish monthly paper, which he edited with Tomas Ó Maille. With Padraig Ó Domhnallain, he wrote a series of short stories which were published under the title Bruth-Fa-Thiar. He later became Professor of Irish at UCG. He was the father of Padraic O Raghallaigh, first Ceannaire of Raidio na Gaeltachta, the Irish-language radio station.