# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathal-o-searcaigh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:49.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathal-o-searcaigh"
name: "Cathal Ó Searcaigh"
slug: "cathal-o-searcaigh"
description: "Cathal Ó Searcaigh, is a modern Irish language poet. His work has been widely translated, anthologised and studied. \"His confident internationalism\", according to Theo Dorgan, has channelled \"new modes, new possibilities, into the writing of Irish language poetry in our time\"."
tagline: "Irish poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cathal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.92
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.621312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_O_Searcaigh"
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    title: "Cathal Ó Searcaigh"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_%C3%93_Searcaigh"
    title: "Cathal Ó Searcaigh"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%E2%80%99%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB"
    title: "О’Шарки, Кахал"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump