Fiona McCann: My grandfather the professor, his friend JRR Tolkien, and a beloved island idyll

In 1975, my grandad Riobárd P Breatnach, professor of Old and Middle English in UCC, with his deep grá for the Irish language, translated Conchúr Ó Síocháin’s Seanchas Chléire (The Man from Cape Clear) into English.