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Bernard Callan (1750 - 1804): Scholar Bernard Callan was born in Farney, County Monaghan, and was educated in Antwerp. In 1780 he was appointed parish priest of the parishes of Inniskeen and Donaghmoyne, County Monaghan. He instigated the building of Drumcatton and Taplagh Churches. He was an Irish scholar and he commissioned an Irish prayer book in 1800. It was reprinted in 1819, 1825 and 1835, and was known as The Spiritual Rose it contained his Gaeilge translation of Deis Irae, the Day of Wrath. He composed both prose and poetry in Irish, English and Latin, and many of his manuscripts are in the Franciscan archives in Killiney. ====
 * DEIS IRAE,

Translated by the Rev. Bernard Callan. La na feirge, laud an leurscrios, La mbeidh criocha thrid a cheile, Mur deir Dabhi ’is Tybeala.

Creud e an tuafas bhualfas daona, Le lin lua a bheth air chuasne Chriosta, Sgach ni da’r chualaidh a nuas o’n diole.

Beidh buabhal ard an la sin seataidh, Cuirp !is cnamha as ard gach reaguin, Teacht a lathir gan spas aig aon diof.

Beidh beatha agus bas gan spas le cheiel, An tan do thiafar arist aig eirigh, Gach aon humhal ’sa chuis le feachaint,

Beidh leabhar scribhtha siosfaoi sheala, Mur mbeidh gach ni gan chlaon gan bhreaga, Tabhairt breatheamhnus fior air dhaona an tshaoghal so.

An breatheamh fior na shuidh do bheidh se, Gach ni bhi air ceilt do dheantar faofdn, Is tuchfaidh daoltus daor na dhaoidh sin

Mise an treutur cread a dearraid, No cia he da’ udeanud carraid, Sa fiorean fein go mbeidh sa mbarrs.

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