Vincent Morley
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B.A. (UCD, 1989), M.Phil. (UCD, 1992), Ph.D. (Liverpool, 1999). Tá suíomh pearsanta agam ag: www.vmorley.org
"Alle wahrhaft großen Gedanken kommen einem beim Gehen!" "Na smaointe uile atá mór i ndáiríre ritheann siad leat agus tú ag siúl!" Dealbh atá le feiceáil i dTrá Mhór, Contae Phort Láirge.
The literature of the 18th century shows otherwise: for example, the verse below was composed in 1756. Source: Risteárd Ó Foghludha, 'Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara', (B.Á.C., 1933), 40.
D'aimsigh mé an uaigh! D'fhéadfaí slacht níos fearr a chur uirthi - na fiailí a bhaint mar shampla.
Tabharfaidh mé cuairt ar uaigh an Duinnínigh an chéad uair eile a bheidh mé i reilig Ghlas Naíon!
Tá an nóta seo thíos le léamh in 'Annála Uladh' don bhliain 1498. D'fhéadfadh an t-aistriúchán a bheith níos pointeáilte:
Craolfar an dara clár sa tsraith faoi Réabhlóid Mheiriceá ar TG4 ag 9.30 anocht. Beidh corrfhocal le cloisteáil ó údar 'Irish Opinion and the American Revolution' (Cambridge UP, 2002) agus 'Washington i gCeannas a Ríochta' (Coiscéim, 2005).
Dhá chéad caoga bliain tar éis fhógairt neamhspleáchas na Stát Aontaithe, is cuí dúinn duine de na hÉireannaigh a raibh páirt mhór aige sa chogadh réabhlóideach a thabhairt chun cuimhne: mar atá, Sir Guy Carleton, fear a rugadh sa Srath Bán, Co. Thír Eoghain, ar an 3 Meán Fómhair 1724. 1/5
Ach ar an láimh eile ... Caithfear a rá go bhfuil an dá leabhar seo sean go leor: foilsíodh iad in 1962 agus 1950 faoi seach. Bhí 'Nuachúrsa Gaeilge' fós in úsáid nuair a bhí mise ar an meánscoil - "ní inniu ná inné" mar adeirtear.
Seo daoibh mapa d'Éirinn sa bhliain 1500. Is é seo an chéad mhapa don dara imleabhar den magnum opus. 'Nua-stair na hÉireann' a bheidh air, nó 'Nuastair na hÉireann' b'fhéidir - táim idir dhá chomhairle maidir leis an bhfleiscín ...
Agus tá cluiche níos tábhachtaí fós romhainn anois - i gcoinne na Ciarraígh!
Bhí an chéad chluiche inniu ar fheabhas ach tá an ceann is tábhachtaí fós le teacht ...
Táim in Eochaill inniu agus ar tí dul isteach sa siopa leabhar ar thaobh na láimhe clé ...
There were good technical reasons for Corkery to confine his study to Munster - although his relative neglect of Co. Clare is harder to understand. The idea that he "rejected Northern Ireland's claim to a Gaelic past" is not correct. Here is a passage from 'The Hidden Ireland'. 3/3
It is unfortunate that Louis Cullen's deeply flawed critique of Corkery is still being cited as an authority. As I write in a forthcoming essay, his critique "contains misinterpretations, selective quotations, non-sequiturs, and unfounded assertions that undermine its credibility". 2/3
This is not correct. The Irish poets of the 18th century were not professionals or an elite group. They were farmers, publicans, tailors, stone masons, mill-wrights, musicians, coopers, priests, teachers, etc. They were spread across the social spectrum from landless labourers to gentlemen. 1/3
Nuair a léas an comhartha seo inné ní raibh tuairim dá laghad agam cén chiall a bhí le 'gluaiseacht na nDeonach' - cé gur scríobhas tráchtas Ph.D. ar an tréimhse chéanna. B'éigean dom súil a thabhairt ar an leagan Béarla sular thuigeas gurbh iad na Volunteers a bhí i gceist! 1/3
Casadh William Marshal agus Isobel de Clare orm ag mainistir Tintern inniu:
"Rather than a decisive march from the oral to the written, from writing to printing, we observe an early modern world in which handwritten newsletters persisted in many places until the early eighteenth century and were by no means displaced by new technology." 1/2
Tá Gaillimh ceithre chúilín chun tosaigh ag leatham ach ní fiú mórán é sin san iomáint ...