Pádraigín Haicéad (English Patrick Hackett; Latin Patricius Hacquettus; c. 1604 – November 1654) was an Irish-language poet and Dominican priest. His father was James Hackett FitzPiers, from an Old English family at Ballytarsna near Cashel, County Tipperary. From his Gaelic Irish mother Mairéad Ní Chearna (Margaret Kearney) of Littleton he seems to have gained knowledge of Gaelic legends and folklore. He joined the Dominicans in Limerick about 1625 and went to the Irish College, Louvain in 1628, returning to Ireland in 1638 as prior of St. Dominic's Abbey, Cashel. The Butlers of Dunboyne were related to his mother and patrons of his; the 1640 death of Edmond [Eamonn] Butler, Baron Dunboyne was a turning point in his personal and poetic life. He wrote a caoineadh (lament) for Eamonn whose m