page_title: Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Isidores church of the Irish Franciscans, Rome
context_page_description: Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh was a Franciscan friar, theologian and grammarian, author of the first published grammar of the Irish language written in Latin, c. 1606–1677.
context_section_description: Ó Maolmhuaidh was born in the Diocese of Meath, most probably in the district of Fercall, lordship of The Ó Maolmhuaidh, in what was then called King's County. While his exact place within the Ó Maolmhuaidh family is unknown, he recorded stories heard in his youth "of a great Christmas banquet for 960 people, lasting twelve days, held by Calvagh O'Molloy, chief of his name, at the end of the sixteenth century."
  He appears to have been an uncle to Reverend Seán Ó Dálaigh, a student at Saint Isidore's College, Rome, who seemed to have been the man who acted as censor librorum for Ó Maolmhuaidh's Grammatica.
caption: St. Isidore's church of the Irish Franciscans, Rome.
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