Léacht Uí Chadhain 1981: Ag Déanamh Páipéir - foinsí inspioráide an Chadhnaigh. Alan Titley.

Sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, a thugtar Léacht Uí Chadhain gach bliain in ómós do dhuine de mhórscríbhneoirí comhaimseartha na Gaeilge, Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970). Ócáid is ea í a bhíonn dírithe d’aon turas ar an bpobal i gcoitinne agus ar lucht ollscoile. Tá an léacht féin ar cheann de na hócáidí is tábhachtaí i bhféilire Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus an Bhéaloidis UCD mar go dtugann sí deis don fhoireann teagmháil a dhéanamh le pobal Gaeilge na hardchathrach.

Seo chugaibh an dara léacht a tugadh sa tsraith: Léacht Uí Chadhain 1981, arna tabhairt ag an gcriticeoir agus an scríbhneoir Alan Titley.

Tá an leabhar Léachtaí Uí Chadhain: Mórchnuasach in ómós do Mháirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) arna chur in eagar ag an Dr Liam Mac Amhlaigh (NUIM) agus ag an Ollamh Comhlach Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith (UCD) ar fáil ó clo.ie/ga/

Ceol le caoinchead Éilis Nic Aodhagáin.

Íomhá ón suíomh Portráidí, portraidi.ie. Máire Uí Mhaicín a ghlac.

Léachtaí Uí Chadhain

Léacht Uí Chadhain 1981 - Alan Titley

For this episode of Blúiríní I am joined by sculptor Aidan Harte, whose recent work 'The Púca of Ennistymon' was commissioned by Clare county Council for the town of Ennistymon in the west of Ireland. The piece caused widespread controversy and made headlines nationally and internationally over the summer, being denounced as a pagan idol and sinister statue irreflective of the character and heritage of the town. In the course of our discussion Aidan and I examine the controversy and differing opinions regarding the statue, before taking a closer look at the figure of the Púca himself.

The Púca is a solitary spirit in Irish folk tradition. A wanderer of the night, tradition tells us that he is often found in lonely portions of the rural landscape beyond the confines of the town; gambolling and sporting to himself amidst the hayfields in autumn, spoiling the fruit of the roadside with the coming of winter or haunting lonely glens, caves, chasms, cliffs, pools, forts, woods and castles across Ireland that bear his name. His shape is amorphous - many mushrooms are named after him, and he may appear to wayfarers on the road at night as a horse, a goat, a dog, a man or as a streak of light. Those who meet with him in lonely places at night relate how he hoists them up on his back before embarking on a breakneck cross-country ride; leaping over ditches and through hedges, or running along cliff edges frightening and tormenting his unhappy passenger. Other accounts relate the ways in which the Púca protects those whom he meets; safeguarding them against some worse fate at the hands of otherworld beings, or protecting castles and large estates as a sort of tutelary figure or house spirit. Join us as we explore this chaotic and shadowy figure of 'malignancy and mischief'.

Some sources drawn on for this episode:
The Eldritch World, Nigel Pennick (Arcana Europea 2019)
Irish Names of Places, Patrick Weston Joyce (M. H. Gill and Son 1887)
Deasún Breathnach, 'The Púca: A Multifunctional Irish Supernatural Entity' in Folklore Volume 104 (1993 i & ii)
Erin Sebo, 'Does OE Puca Have an Irish Origin?' in Studia Neophilologica, Volume 89 (2017 Issue 2)
Claude Lecouteaux, 'Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology and Magic' (Inner Traditions, ed. Michael Moynihan, 2016)
Claude Lecouteaux, The Tradition of Household Spirits (Inner Traditions, trans. Jon E. Graham, 2013)
Katharine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies (Penguin, 1976)
National Folklore Collection Main Manuscript Collection
National Folklore Collection Schools' Manuscript Collection
National Folklore Collection Audio Collection

For Frank Callery's singing see:
https://soundcloud.com/frankcallerysongs

For Enda Haran's Music see:
https://www.facebook.com/endaharan2017/
https://www.instagram.com/endaharanmusic/
https://endaharan.bandcamp.com/

Blúiríní Béaloidis 31 - The Púca (with Aidan Harte)

[English version below]

Ó bhí sí ina páiste óg, tá Levana bródúil as a dúchas Giúdach agus as na mná láidre a chuaigh roimpi. Duine acu sin í Hana Lazare, seanmháthair Levana, a theith ina cailín óg di óna tír dhúchais i dtuaisceart na hEorpa, an t-aon duine amháin dá muintir a tháinig slán ó shlad an Shoah. Ach nuair a thagann mearbhall intinne ar Hana i ndeireadh a saoil, sceitheann blúirí eolais óna béal a fhágann Levana trína chéile. Seoltar an bhean óg ar aistear a thugann uirthi gach rud a dúirt a seanmháthair riamh léi a cheistiú. De réir mar a ghluaiseann an scéal ó Pháras go dtí an Bhruiséil go hiarthar na hÉireann, druideann Levana le fíorscéal a seanmháthar agus leis an tubaiste ba chúis leis an saol rúnda atá caite ag Madame Lazare.

Láithreoir: Seán Ó Catháin
Aíonna: Caitlín Nic Íomhair agus Eoin McEvoy

[Leagan Gaeilge thuas]

Levana has always been proud of her Jewish heritage and the generations of Jewish women who went before her. One of those women is her grandmother, Hana Lazare, who raised Levana in a traditional Jewish community in Paris. Hana’s story is one of struggle: as a child, she fled the Nazi invasion of her Northern European homeland and made her way to London. She was the only member of her family that survived the Shoah. She has never spoken a word about that other life to Levana.

But as Hana succumbs to old age and her mind becomes increasingly confused, fragments of memory emerge that surprise Levana. And as Hana unknowingly reveals more of her past, Levana finds herself questioning everything her grandmother has ever told her. The trail leads from Paris to Brussels to the Atlantic coast of Ireland, and as it does so Levana closes in on the true story of Madame Lazare’s past and the event that changed forever the course of her life.

Presenter: Seán Ó Catháin
Guests: Caitlín Nic Íomhair and Eoin McEvoy

Madame Lazarre - Leabhar mhí an Mhárta 2022 | Book of the month - March 2022

[English version below]

Bliain 19 sa Ré Úr. Am a bhfuil deireadh leis an saol a bhfuil aithne againn air agus cónaí ar an daonra i mBithsféir fud fad an domhain. Is i mBithsféar 9 atá Emma agus Zara lonnaithe. Ar bhreithlá Emma, í seacht mbliana déag d’aois, roghnaítear í don chúrsa is tábhachtaí sa choláiste, dar leis na hÚdaráis. Ach céard atá i ndán dá cara, Zara, nach bhfuil chomh cliste céanna léi? An gcuirfear chuig Feirm na bhFéatas í le bheith ina síolraitheoir?

Láithreoir: Seán Ó Catháin
Aíonna: Ailbe van der Heide agus Stiofán Ó Briain

[Leagan Gaeilge thuas]

It’s Year 19 in the New Era. A time where life has we know it has ended and the population lives in Biospheres all across the world. Emma and Zara are based in Biosphere 9. On Emma’s birthday, when she turn seventeen years old, she is chosen for the post important course in the college, according to the Authorities. But what’s in store for her friend, Zara, who isn’t as clever as she is? Will she be sent to the Feotus Farm to be a breeder?

Presenter: Seán Ó Catháin
Guests: Ailbe van der Heide and Stiofán Ó Briain

An Dara Rogha - Leabhar mhí Dheireadh Fómhair 2022 | October's Book of the Month 2022

Ar mhaith leatsa snas a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge ach níl an t-am agat leabhair ghramadaí a cheadú? Fáilte chuig What the Focal!? – podchraoladh le Ciara Ní É a thugann ardán do na saineolaithe Gaeilge is suntasaí dá bhfuil amuigh ann! 

Gach seachtain cuirfidh Ciara agallamh ar aoi oilte, le cabhrú leatsa barr feabhais a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge. Is é an podchraoladh seo an leagan is déanaí den tsraith YouTube What the Focal!? a chuir Ciara ar bun in 2017. Más mian leatsa éisteacht le comhráite réchúiseacha a chuirfidh le do chumas teangan, bí linn! 

San eagrán seo labhraíonn Ciara le Cormac Breathnach, Bainisteoir Thionscadail Fhoclóireachta Fhoras na Gaeilge. 

Cad is brí le ‘neamhchorrabhuaiseach’? 

Cén fáth go mbíonn an focal ‘dúshlán’ ag crá na nGael? 

An ionann ‘neamhchaighdeánach’ agus mícheart? 

Foghlaim freagraí na gceisteanna sin, agus faigh spléachadh ar leith ar An Foclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge agus na foclóirí nua atá ar na bacáin. 

Buíochas le Foras na Gaeilge agus leis An Foclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge as urraíocht a dhéanamh ar an bpodchraoladh seo.

What the Focal!? - Cormac Breathnach

Ar mhaith leatsa snas a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge ach níl an t-am agat leabhair ghramadaí a cheadú? Fáilte chuig What the Focal!? – podchraoladh le Ciara Ní É a thugann ardán do na saineolaithe Gaeilge is suntasaí dá bhfuil amuigh ann!

Gach seachtain cuirfidh Ciara agallamh ar aoi oilte, le cabhrú leatsa barr feabhais a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge. Is é an podchraoladh seo an leagan is déanaí den tsraith YouTube What the Focal!? a chuir Ciara ar bun in 2017. Más mian leatsa éisteacht le comhráite réchúiseacha a chuirfidh le do chumas teangan, bí linn!

San eagrán seo labhraíonn Ciara le Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, léachtóir le Nua-Ghaeilge sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath mar a bhfuil sí ina hOllamh agus ina Ceann Ábhair.

Cad is brí le 'taoscadh'?

An raibh an Tuiseal Gairmeach ag Shakespeare?

Cad is 'guta glan' ann, agus an bhfuil siad agat?

Ó Ghleann Maghair, Co. Chorcaí, ó dhúchas í Meidhbhín agus tá dlúthcheangal gaoil aici le leithinis Bhéarra. Toghadh í ina ball d’Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann i Márta na bliana 2021, an gradam acadúil is airde sa tír seo, as an sárobair scolártha atá curtha i gcrích aici ar son na nDaonnachtaí.

Buíochas le Foras na Gaeilge agus leis An Foclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge as urraíocht a dhéanamh ar an bpodchraoladh seo. 

Luaitear san eagrán seo an dán 'Dúchas' le Dairena Ní Chinnéide.

What the Focal!? - Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail

Ar mhaith leat snas a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge ach níl an t-am agat leabhair ghramadaí a cheadú? Fáilte chuig What the Focal!? – podchraoladh le Ciara Ní É a thugann ardán do na saineolaithe Gaeilge is suntasaí dá bhfuil amuigh ann!

Gach seachtain cuirfidh Ciara agallamh ar aoi oilte, le cabhrú leatsa barr feabhais a chur ar do chuid Gaeilge. Is é an podchraoladh seo an leagan is déanaí den tsraith YouTube What the Focal!? a chuir Ciara ar bun in 2017. Más mian leatsa éisteacht le comhráite réchúiseacha a chuirfidh le do chumas teangan, bí linn!

San eagrán seo labhraíonn Ciara le Diarmuid Ó Sé, léachtóir le Nua-Ghaeilge sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath.

'Fíon na Spáinne' nó 'Fíon Spáinneach'?

Cén difear atá idir ‘méid na ndaoine’ agus ‘an méid daoine’?

Na comharthaí bóthair ‘maraíonn tuirse’ - an bhfuil ciall leo?

Céimí de chuid UCD agus UCC is ea Diarmuid Ó Sé. Tá sealanna caite aige mar léachtóir le teangeolaíocht agus leis an Nua-Ghaeilge. Ó Chiarraí Thiar ó dhúchas é. Eisean a scríobh an leabhar téagartha Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne, ina bhfuil cur síos cuimsitheach ar Ghaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne. Beidh leagan Béarla de ar fáil go luath.

Buíochas le Foras na Gaeilge agus leis An Foclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge as urraíocht a dhéanamh ar an bpodchraoladh seo. 

Leis an eagrán seo cuirtear clabhsúr le sraith 1 den phodchraoladh What the Focal!? Ach níl deireadh leis an togra What the Focal!? ná baol air! Coinnígí súil ar chuntais @miseciara don nuacht is déanaí. Míle buíochas libh as éisteacht.

What the Focal!? - Diarmuid Ó Sé

Ar an gclár seo labhair muid le hÁine Ní Bheinéid i Melbourne na hAstráile faoi Chorn Domhanda na mBan a bhí ar siúl ansin i rith an tsamhraidh. Chomh maith leis sin labhair Joe Simpson linn faoi Fhéile Eisteddfod sa Bhreatain Bheag ar fhreastail sé air le gairid - meascán de chultúr na Breataine Bige, an phobail aitigh agus go leor eile!

Fada is Fairsing 22ú Lúnasa 2023

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, UCD. 
First lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House
Date: October 2015

Disclaimer:
The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.

Four generations of literary scholarship: the remarkable contribution of the Ó Longáin family

In the second talk in this academic year's series Irish Studies in a Global Context, translator Oisín Ó Muirthile shares with us his insight into the craft of translation and discusses the challenges of translating into Irish the novel A Game of Thrones, published by Leabhar Breac in 2016 under the title Cluiche na Corónach.

Ó Muirthile is distinguished not only by his singular achievement of translating this mammoth fantasy novel, the first in the George R. R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire, but also by virtue of his having completed such a fine translation at such an early age. 

We congratulate him on his talk.

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Is é Oisín Ó Muirthile, aistritheoir an leabhair chlúitigh A Game of Thrones, a labhair linn don dara caint sa tsraith Irish Studies in a Global Context. Sa chaint seo tugann Ó Muirthile léargas dúinn ar cheird an aistriúcháin agus ar na dúshláin a bhain le haistriúchán a dhéanamh ar an úrscéal áirithe seo, a d'fhoilsigh Leabhar Breac faoin teideal Cluiche na Corónach sa bhliain 2016.

Ní hé éacht an aistriúcháin amháin atá suntasach ach an aois a bhí ag Ó Muirthile nuair a thug sé faoi freisin. 

Tréaslaímid le hOisín a chaint bhreá.

Translating A Game Of Thrones to Irish - Oisín Ó Muirthile

Is é Cultúr @ UCD cuntas Soundcloud Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus an Bhéaloidis, UCD.

Cultúr @ UCD is the Soundcloud account of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD.

Ní gá gurb ionann na tuairimí a nochtar anseo agus tuairimí na Scoile.

The views expressed here may not necessarily reflect the views of the School.

Léacht Uí Chadhain 1981 - Alan Titley

Cultúr @ UCD

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