Risteard Ó Foghludha (5 March 1871 – 20 August 1957) was an Irish-language teacher, journalist and editor from near Youghal, County Cork.
He dedicated his first literary work Carn Tighearnaigh (1938) to Máirtín Ó Buadhacháin from Youghal, the first person who taught him to read and write in the Irish language.
(" do Mháirtín Ó Buadhacháin in Eochaill, don té do chéad-thug teagasc dam i léigheamh agus i scríobhadh ár dteangadh dúthchais.")
It claimed that he was charged with reporting the last speech of Charles Stuart Parnell, made in Creaga, County Galway, on 27 September 1891.
He chose the motto for the Craobh (Branch) 'Múscail do mhisneach, a Bhanba' (Awaken your courage, Banba (Ireland)) and served as its honorary secretary for nine years.
Fíoraon le fiarán,(Leo Tolstoy); An Béar, 1923 (Anton Chekhov); Ag Suirghe leis an mBaintreach, 1927 (The Courting of the Widow Malone by Constance P. Anderson); Fiche gearrscéal ar na thionntódh as an bhFraingcis ( 20 short stories translated from French,) 1930; Naoi ngearra-chluichí ar n-a thionntódh by Fiachra Éilgeach, 1930; Maria Chapdelaine, 1933 (Louis Hemon); Cnósach gearr-scéal.
Ó Foghludha held the position of manager in the company 'Underwood Typewriter Co. ", at 5 Leinster Street, up to April 1936 when he started working for An Gúm.
For a period, he was editor at 'Brown and Nolan' before Éamon de Valera appointed him to Coimisiún na Logainmneacha (The Placenames Commission) in the year 1946.