Seán Ó Súilleabháin

Seán Ó Súilleabháin (30 November 1903 – 13 December 1996)^[1] was a teacher and folklorist with the Irish Folklore Commission. He was a native Irish speaker from County Kerry.^[2]

Educated at St Brendan's College, Killarney, he trained as a national school teacher from 1921 to 1923 at De La Salle College Waterford. He worked as a teacher in County Kilkenny and Mount Sion, Waterford. In 1934, he earned an external BA in Celtic Studies from University College London, followed by an MA. In 1935, he became the first archivist with the Irish Folklore Commission, which had been established, and received training at Uppsala University in Sweden.^[1] Following the commission's closure, he worked as a lecturer at University College Dublin. He was awarded an honorary DLittCelt from the National University of Ireland in 1976.^[3]