Major publication event in UCC’s Department of Modern Irish

5 Apr 2012

The Department of Modern Irish recently celebrated the publication of five books, including two prize-winning volumes, based on postgraduate theses completed in the Department.

The authors include Dr Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe, a lecturer in the Department, whose Párliment na bhFíodóirí, Dáibhí de Barra won the ACIS /Foras na Gaeilge award for books in Irish at the recent American Conference for Irish Studies in New Orleans and Dr Barra Ua Cearnaigh, whose thesis on Séamas Ó Scoireadh, on which his Amhail Fuaim Chogair Bhig is based, was awarded the Johann Kaspar Zeuss prize by Societas Celtologica Europeaa;  Dr Tríona Ní Shíocháin, a lecturer in Irish at the University of Limerick, whose multitextual work on the songs of Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (1774-1848) includes a CD with recordings of fourteen of those songs; Dr Laoise Nic Chárthaigh, whose thesis on role of the semi-state sector in the development of the Gaeltacht has been published as an e-book, and Tadhg Ó Síocháin, a former Assistant Chief Inspector in the Department of Education and Science, whose collection of stories, translated from the work of the French writer, Marcel  Aymé, is based on a recently completed MA.

A sixth book, by Dr Neil Buttimer, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish, contains the author’s reflections on current pedagogical and funding issues in the academic sphere.