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Réimeanna teanga a níos dráma de ghearrscéal Le Fidelma Ní Ghallchobhair. Foilsíodh an t‑alt seo i dtosach in Feasta Aibreán agus Bealtaine 2007. Ó Cadhain agus an drámaíocht Sa léacht chlúiteach, Páipéir Bhána agus Páipéir Bhreaca, a thug sé an bhliain sular cailleadh é, dúirt Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Ó Cadhain 1969:24–25) gur scríobh sé ceithre dhráma ar fad, ceann […]
Le Liam Mac Cóil. Tugadh an léacht seo ag Scoil Gheimhridh Chumann Merriman i 2006, mar chuid den siompósiam den teideal céanna. Ní cuimhin liomsa an áit a raibh mé nuair a fuair Johh F. Kennedy, bás; ní cuimhin liom an áit a raibh mé nuair a fuair Éamon de Valéra bás. Ach is cuimhin liom […]
By Mae Leonard. In this 2008 piece for RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany, Mae recalled Dublin in the late sixties — and a fascinating figure whom she did not identify until forty years later. Everything in Dublin was new and exciting to me back then — having moved from the confining walls of Limerick to, […]
Le Declan Kiberd. Published, under the title No Ordinary Man, in Irish Examiner, Wednesday15th February, 2006 (p 16). Portrait of a revolutionary Máirtín Ó Cadhain was born in Cois Fharraige, Connemara, Co Galway, in 1906. He taught in the area but lost his post in the 1930s because of the objections of the local bishop to […]
Le Cathal Ó Háinle. Foilsithe in Bliainiris 6. Eag. Ruairí Ó hUiginn agus Liam Mac Cóil, Carbad, 2006, lgh. 9–42. AG: As an nGéibheann: Litreacha chuig Tomás Bairéad (Sáirséal agus Dill, 1973). GO: De ghlaschloich an oileáin: Beatha agus Saothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (An tSiúr Bosco Costigan i gcomhar le Seán Ó Curraoin, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 1987). PBPB: Páipéir Bhána agus […]
Le Fionntán de Brún. Introduction While the phrase ‘Ó Cadhain versus Ó Droighneáin’ is admittedly fictive, suggesting, as it does, the title of a putative court case or heavy-weight boxing bout, I hope the intention may be forgiven insofar as Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Muiris Ó Droighneáin were indeed heavy-weights in the discourse of the Irish language in the twentieth […]
By Tomás de Bhaldraithe. This article was first published in Lochlann 6, in 1974. The appointment of Máirtín Ó Cadhain to the Professorship of Irish in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1967, was as unexpected as it was unprecedented; particularly in a university which had on previous occasions seen fit to reject Douglas Hyde (for the same chair) […]