Séamas Ó Neachtain (Jim Norton) is an Irish-American writer who has published journalism, poetry and fiction in the Irish language.
Over a number of years he attended classes in Long Island, New York, acquiring a mastery of the language and then teaching it himself.
[1] He began writing a regular column in Irish for the National Hibernian Digest in 2002 and in 2004 published An File ar Buile, a book of prose and verse.
He also established An Gael, a quarterly Irish-language periodical which publishes prose and verse by writers from all over the world.
He has published poetry, fiction and articles in Irish in such journals as Feasta and Comhar, and is also active on the Internet.