Best Irish Language Books

List of great books written in (or translated into) the Irish language.
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111 books · 14 voters · list created August 5th, 2008 by John (votes) .
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John 510 books
37 friends
Lanea 4404 books
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Dáithí's 12295 books
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Sean 271 books
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Marjory 1484 books
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Michaeline 508 books
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Stuart 1878 books
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James 298 books
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message 1: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Nov 09, 2016 01:00PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) It says: "List of great contributions made by Irish authors to the language of their ancestors". Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (#105), Günter Grass (#18,) Aesop (#46) and Homer (#66) were not Irish, as far as I know...
Alex Hijmans (#57) is Dutch, lived in Galway for a while, wrote in Irish and translated books into Irish. Still, he's not Irish, like the description says he should be in order to appear on this list...


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) @John
I noticed you've changed the description of the Listopia since my previous comment.


message 3: by John (new)

John @John, pedantry aside, this is a great list and a useful resource. Thanks for creating it. AND for having translations into Irish on it.


message 4: by Davis (new)

Davis Personally, I disagree with including translations, either into or from Irish, on this list. Why not have a list that promotes native Irish literature that was written originally in Irish? A language won't survive on translations alone, and those already get more then enough hype among the Gaelo-sphere.


message 5: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Aug 07, 2017 10:57PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Davis wrote: "Personally, I disagree with including translations ..."

:-) Glad I'm not the only one.


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