Eamon Ó Cuív to speak in honour of Baile Mhúirne doctor

Fianna Fáil TD Eamon Ó Cuív will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s commemoration of Gaelic scholar and activist Dónal Ó Loingsigh in Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork.

Mr Ó Cuív, whose grandparents were natives of mid-Cork, will give a bilingual lecture on Saturday, September 10, at the third annual gathering in celebration of the life of the influential doctor, who had a remarkable and varied career as a GP, soldier, and business leader.

It was Mr Ó Cuív’s grandfather, Cork journalist Shán Ó Cuív — a contemporary of Dr Ó Loingsigh — who changed the family name from O’Keefe to the unusual use of the letter ‘v’ as part of a simplified Irish spelling system he helped to invent, ‘An Leitriú Shimplí’.