Duais Uí Dhreada

From 2009 Roinn an Bhéaloidis: Department of Folklore and Ethnology will award a prize to the best first year essay presented to it in both Béaloideas and Folklore. The prize will be a 50.00 voucher for Liam Ruiséal bookshop on Oliver Plunkett Street. Liam Ruiséal’s Bookshop have kindly cosponsored the prize. It is named after John Draddy or Seán Ó Dreada as he always signed himself. Born around 1770 in Meenoughter, Killeagh in East Cork he lived, like many students, in different areas of the city from Little Island to Blarney Road and Evergreen.  He was a stonecutter by trade and a scholar by night. An obituary describes him as ‘zealous, correct and indefatigable’ and ‘rescuing from ruin and oblivion, by beautiful and correct  transcripts, the various Irish manuscripts, prose and verse, that he could  possibly collect, or in instructing through the medium of their own language his poorer brethren in the principles of religion and morality’. He died in 1840 on Evergreen Road.

The prizes will be awarded in the Spring Term when all results have been returned.

Ón mbliain 2009 bronnfaidh Roinn an Bhéaloidis agus na hEitneolaíochta duais ar na haistí is fearr sa chéad bhliain den Béaloideas agus den Folklore araon. Bronnfear dearbhán leabhair ar fiú 50.00 euro é le caitheamh i siopa leabhair Liam Ruiséal ar Sráid Oilibhéir Pluincéid. Dhein siopa leabhair Liam Ruiséal comhurraíocht ar an nduais seo agus ba mhaith uathu é. Tá an duais ar ghreis Sheáin Uí Dhreada a rugadh ar an mBinn Uachtair, Daingean Uí Dhonnabháin, gairid do Chill Iath in oirthear Chorcaí. Thug sé tamall sa chathair, dála ana-chuid mic léinn, ón Oileán Beag, ar Bhóthar na Blárnan agus ar an mBóthar Síorghlas. Sníodóir cloiche a bhí sa ló agus scoláire Gaeilge istoíche. Seo mar a chuireann cuntas báis síos air ‘zealous, correct and indefatigable’ agus ‘rescuing from ruin and oblivion, by beautiful and correct  transcripts, the various Irish manuscripts, prose and verse, that he could  possibly collect, or in instructing through the medium of their own language his poorer brethren in the principles of religion and morality’. D’éag sé i dtigh a dhearthár ar an mBóthar Síorghlas.

Bronnfar na duaiseanna i Ráithe na Féile Bríde nuair a bheidh na torthaí go léir istigh.

Roinn an Bhéaloidis: Department of Folklore and Ethnology wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the bookshop of Liam Ruiséal, Oliver Plunkett Street, in awarding this student prize.

Ba mhaith le Roinn an Bhéaloidis buíochas ó chroí a ghabháil le siopa leabhar Liam Ruiséil, Sráid Oilibhéir Pluincéid as a fhlaithiúlacht agus an duais seo á thairiscint do mhic léinn.

Draddy Prize 2013;

Winner in the Folkore section