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Gaelic Is Fun
Have fun learning Scottish Gaelic with this popular book!
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91 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Colm Ó Baoill
18 booksColm Ó Baoill is a Gaelic scholar.
Starting in Belfast, where his Professor was Heinrich Wagner (1923 - 1988), he studied Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic in his theses for the MA (1962) and PhD (1966) degrees, and between 1961 and 1965 he collected Scottish material for Vol. IV (1969) of Wagner's Linguistic Atlas. In Aberdeen his interest soon turned to Gaelic verse of the period 1600 - 1730 and several volumes have been published (1972, 1979, 1994, 1995 and 1997), including an anthology with English translations by Meg Bateman (1994).
In the late 70s Breandán Ó Doibhlin, Professor of French at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, who visited the Highlands and became a student of the work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, suggested that a collection of Scottish Gaelic short stories translated into Irish would be of interest in Ireland; this collection, Feoil an Gheimhridh, was published in 1980, reprinted 1996.
About 1980 and after, he co-operated with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, then in the Department of Celtic in Glasgow, towards a major projected anthology of all the extant examples of the 17th-19th-century Irish verse form known as Trí Rainn agus Amhrán: 103 of them were found (one of them in Scottish Gaelic), some during sabbatical terms spent visiting collections of manuscripts both in Britain and in Ireland. Having finally overcome difficulties with four different publishers, they had a collection of the texts published in Belfast in 1996 - but without any of the academic apparatus. The complete work (in Irish) was published as a CD, and on the internet, by Clann Tuirc in 2005 and (with a Scottish Gaelic version) in 2006.
Starting in Belfast, where his Professor was Heinrich Wagner (1923 - 1988), he studied Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic in his theses for the MA (1962) and PhD (1966) degrees, and between 1961 and 1965 he collected Scottish material for Vol. IV (1969) of Wagner's Linguistic Atlas. In Aberdeen his interest soon turned to Gaelic verse of the period 1600 - 1730 and several volumes have been published (1972, 1979, 1994, 1995 and 1997), including an anthology with English translations by Meg Bateman (1994).
In the late 70s Breandán Ó Doibhlin, Professor of French at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, who visited the Highlands and became a student of the work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, suggested that a collection of Scottish Gaelic short stories translated into Irish would be of interest in Ireland; this collection, Feoil an Gheimhridh, was published in 1980, reprinted 1996.
About 1980 and after, he co-operated with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, then in the Department of Celtic in Glasgow, towards a major projected anthology of all the extant examples of the 17th-19th-century Irish verse form known as Trí Rainn agus Amhrán: 103 of them were found (one of them in Scottish Gaelic), some during sabbatical terms spent visiting collections of manuscripts both in Britain and in Ireland. Having finally overcome difficulties with four different publishers, they had a collection of the texts published in Belfast in 1996 - but without any of the academic apparatus. The complete work (in Irish) was published as a CD, and on the internet, by Clann Tuirc in 2005 and (with a Scottish Gaelic version) in 2006.
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