Mícheál Ó Lócháin (1836 – 1899) was an Irish-American writer, magazine editor, and teacher in New York City Catholic schools.
In that same year he himself established a "Philo-Celtic" Irish language class for adults at the Catholic school in Brooklyn where he taught.
[6] Between 1878 and 1899 chapters of the Philo-Celtic Society were established throughout America, though Ó Lócháin was increasingly dissatisfied with the way in which they gave priority to social activities at the expense of the Irish language.
[10] In 1999, the centenary of Ó Lócháin's death was celebrated in his native Milltown, to honour the village's Irish language past.
1999 also marked the centenary of Ó Lócháin's fellow Milltown man and prominent Gael, Liam Beirne's, ordination into the priesthood.
A lecture was then given by Ó Lócháin's biographer, Fionnuala Uí Fhlannagáin, who described him as a pioneer of the Irish language movement in America.