Pádraigín Haicéad (English Patrick Hackett; Latin Patricius Hacquettus; c. 1604 – November 1654) was an Irish-language poet and Dominican priest.
Around the year 1625, Haicéad joined the Dominicans in Limerick, and, in 1628, went to the Irish College, Louvain, returning to Ireland in 1638 as prior of St. Dominic's Abbey, Cashel.
In 1647, Haicéad and other preachers' opposition to Donough MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry's leadership helped cause the disintegration of the Confederate army.
English translations have been published by Michael Hartnett for most poems,[3] and in lesser numbers by Seán Ó Tuama,[4] Thomas Kinsella,[5] and Pearse Hutchinson.
This is seen in the final words of the following lines: "A Chríost, is buan 's is truagh mo ghéar-ghearán" ([ʝɪˈɾˠɑːn̪ˠ]) "O Christ, eternal and a pity is my bitter complaint"