First published in 1926, most of these proverbs were first heard by the Author in West Kerry, but could be found in any Gaeltacht in Munster . This book of Proverbs...
Memories, adventures and short stories of Belfast parish life. The author was born in Wallasey, England in 1930. He received his education from his Christian Brothers on Falls Road. Former...
Editor - AJ Hughes Patsy Dan Rodgers (or Peatsaí Dan Mac Ruairí in Gaelic) was born at Westland Row in Dublin in 1944. At the age of four, he was adopted...
In 1935, a Gaeltacht colony was created in the townland of Rath Cairn, Co. Meath, for 27 Irish-speaking families. Fianna Fail had achieved an overall majority in the wake...
An account of Irish customs and their resonance. The result of five years of study, this book describes Irish traditions observed on specific days of the year and draws mainly on...
This is a collection of essays on various aspects of the literary tradition of Ulster from the Middle Ages to the middle of the last century. Topics covered include Oriole...
This book is a collection of thirty-five articles celebrating a very interesting period in Irish history and the history of Cloughaneely parish: the Renaissance, the early years of Coláiste Uladh,...
An edited collection of extracts from the notebooks of celebrated Gaeltacht author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970), providing a window on the language, society and personalities of 1930s Conamara. The collection...
Seo scéal Néill Mhícheáil, scéal a d’fhéadfaí a inse faoi mhórán de phobal na Gaeltachta ag tús an chéid seo caite. Bhí orthu a dhul ar imirce go hAlbain agus...
Cad í canóin na ndrámaí Gaeilge? Cad iad na clasaicigh mhóra i ndrámaíocht na Gaeilge? Cé hé nó cé hí an drámadóir is tábhachtaí, is cumasaí, is snoite i saol...
A collection of stories that provide a valuable & rare insight into Irish life from the time of the Great Famine up to the present day.
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In the archives of the French town of Chartres some printed pages from the 18th Century were discovered, and a reference to the mysterious author of these printers’ proofs, Captain...
Comprehensive description of the Irish language community – population and censuses; planning and development in the Gaeltacht; the exclusion of the Irish language from the administrative apparatus of the State;...
An Anthology of Scottish Gaelic literature Edited by Wilson McLeod and Michael Newton The Highest Apple / An Ubhal as Àirde includes more than 200 texts from a wide range...
This book aims to introduce Irish-language students to the study of sociolinguistics, research methodology and results. The essays in this book zero in on studies of the Irish language itself. ...
Síolta Pobail Ghaeilge úra agus na daoine a thóg iad How did a handful of communities and organisations succeed in terms of the revitalisation of the language when so many...
Native Donegal writers made a considerable contribution to the emerging Revivalist Gaelic literature in the last century. In this book, the biography of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a prolific and influential...
Insights into some of This book is a description of the life and work of over 100 community figures in the Donegal Gaeltacht. The various stories give an insight into...
Ireland’s premier literary journal, combining a large general readership with outstanding writing from Ireland and overseas. Variously described as “a wonderful achievement” (Michael Longley); “a major development in Irish literature”...
This work explores the linguistic diversity of contemporary spoken Irish and the values that are linked, explicitly and covertly, to that diversity. Although the traditional Gaeltacht dialects have a clear...
The innovative analysis and proposals in this book set out a positive and optimistic agenda for the Gaelic community. This collection of four essays examines the circumstances of the Gaeltacht and...
