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New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ...
Leathscéal ag na Mná – An greann agus an inscne i scéal le Bab Feiritéar / Humor and gender in ‘The Woman’s Excuse’ as told by Bab Feiritéar
(2016)
Discussion of the interplay of gender in humour in a telling of the tale ATU 'The Enchanted Pear Tree' by the Kerry storyteller Cáit (An Bhab) Feiritéar.
Seosamh Ó hÉanaí agus Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh: cleasa an chrosáin san Oileán Úr
(New Hibernia Review, University of St. Thomas, 2011)
Bhí Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (1919-1984) ar an amhránaí sean-nóis ba mhó le rá san fhichiú haois. Rugadh é ar an Aird Thoir, nó Aird a’ Chaisleáin, i bparóiste Charna. Bhí ainm na háite seo in airde mar cheantar a raibh saibhreas ...
From Galway Bay to Sydney Harbour: Joe Heaney's Concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1981
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2013)
Discussion of performance strategies of singer Joe Heaney's concert in the Opera House in Sydney in January 1981.
Seán Bán Mac Grianna and 'Christine Keeler'
(Celtic and Scottish Studies, 2014)
First publication of the song 'Christine Keeler' by Seán Bán Mac Grianna, made in 1963, with a discussion of its relevance for oral tradition and bard baile (township poetry).
“Tá cuid de na mná blasta/Some Women Are Sweet Talkers”: Representations of Women in Seán Ó hEochaidh’s Field Diaries for the Irish Folklore Commission
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, 2017)
This article discusses representations of women in diaries written by Sean O hEochaidh as part of his work as a field collector for the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1971). Focusing on a number of well-described events ...
Enactments concerning the Irish language, 1922 - 2016
(Clarus Press on behalf of the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 2016)
The Official Languages Act (henceforth OLA) of 2003 gave limited expression to the
constitutional status of Irish as first official language by obliging public bodies to provide a
restricted number of services in Irish. ...
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations
(De Gruyter, 2015-05-28)
This paper examines the experiences and motivations of 'new speakers' of Irish in the United States. 'New speakers' of Irish refer to those whose first language is not Irish but who use the language regularly and fluently. ...
Scannánaíocht na Gaeilge ag tabhairt aghaidh ar an domhan mór
(Comhar, 2017-11)
[No abstract available}