Cosslett Ó Cuinn
The Rev. Canon Cosslett Quin, in Irish Cosslett Ó Cuinn (Derriaghy, County Antrim, 27 February 1907 - 6 December 1995) was a priest of the Church of Ireland who translated the New Testament into Irish. Quin was born to Charles Edward Quin, rector of Derriaghy, and Edith Isobel Waddell. He studied at Campbell College, Belfast, and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he received his Bachelor of Divinity in Theology in 1940. Quin was a poet, theologian, critic, biblical scholar, member of the ecumenical movement, and a scholar of the Irish language. During his studies, he developed a  strong interest in Ulster Irish, and often visited the Irish-speaking Gola Island and Derrybeg. He also published articles in "Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies" on the dialects of Irish spoken on Rathlin Island and Kilkenny. Quin compiled the folklore of native Irish speakers from the islands of Tory and Arranmore off the coast of County Donegal, including Róise Mhic Ghrianna. Quin spoke 12 languages. While working in Belfast and Inishowen in 1931, Quin was promoted to the post of deacon. In 1961, he was appointed professor of Biblical Greek at Trinity College, and began work on a new  translation of the New Testament. He also translated the Book of Psalms, the Prayer Book of the Church of Ireland and the Apocrypha into Irish, as well as theological works by Walter Eichrodt and "Rome and Canterbury: A Biblical and Free Catholicism" by Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta. Although it was unusual in his lifetime for Protestants to hold leading positions in the Irish language movement, Quin was for a time President of Oireachtas na Gaeilge. He was made a canon of St Patrick's Cathedral in 1966, before retiring from the ministry in 1971.