Aodán Mac Póilin (11 October 1948 – 29 December 2016)[1] was an Irish language activist in Northern Ireland.
[3] On returning to Belfast he helped to establish the Shaw's Road Irish-speaking community where he and his wife Áine lived.
Mac Póilin served on the board of Northern Ireland Screen for 5 years from 2012, with particular responsibility for the Irish Language Broadcast Fund.
[5] He also served on the boards of the Columba Initiative, Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta (the Council for Irish-medium Education), the Education Broadcasting Council of BBC Northern Ireland,[6] Foras na Gaeilge (the cross-border Irish language implementation body), and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University Belfast.
Mac Póilin wrote and lectured extensively on various aspects of the Irish language, literature and culture.