As Lios Mór Mochuda ó dhúchas, tá Pádraig ina chéimí de Choláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh agus Ollscoil Dhún Éideann. Ceapadh ina Ollamh le Gaeilge é i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh sa bhliain 2012 agus bhí sé mar Ollamh i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath roimhe sin. Údar scata leabhar agus altanna ar ghnéithe éagsúla de stair na Gaeilge agus stair na hÉireann. Bunaitheoir agus comh-eagarthóir ar ‘An Linn Bhuí: Iris Ghaeltacht na nDéise’.
Cliceáil anseo chun sliocht as caint Phádraig Uí Mhacháin ag an Seimineár i gComóradh ar an gCanónach de Paor a fheiscint.
A native of Lismore, Co. Waterford, Pádraig Ó Macháin is a graduate of UCC and of the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed Professor of Modern Irish at UCC in 2012, having formerly held the position of Professor in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He is currently Head of the Department of Modern Irish and Director of Ionad na Gaeilge Labhartha. He also founded and co-edits ‘An Linn Bhuí’, a yearly anthology of historical and cultural articles, published in Gaeltacht na nDéise.
Click here to see an excerpt of Pádraig Ó Macháin’s contribution to the Commemorative Seminar on Canon Power.
