Éilís Ní Bhrádaigh (1 April 1927 – 17 May 2007), writer and lexicographer was involved in the creation of three major Irish-language dictionaries.
Her father was involved in 1916 Easter Rising and her uncle Christopher printed the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
After winning the Coiste na bPáistí Gaeltacht Scholarship Ní Bhrádaigh spent time in Connemara, County Galway to study Irish.
Through her work on the dictionary Ní Bhrádaigh met a significant number of pivotal people in the Irish language including Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Séamus Ó Saothraí, Seán an Cóta Caomhánach, Pádraig Ua Maoileoin and others.
[1][2][3] Ní Bhrádaigh worked on the street games of Cabra and a book was published on the subject in 1975 by the Irish Folklore Commission.