Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture: An Stair Nach N-Instear: Éire na Gaeilge; or, the Untold History of Ireland

• History

Prof. Alan Titley of University College Cork examines the way in which the Irish language has been largely ignored in the histories of Ireland and how our version of Ireland might be quite different if Irish-language sources were utilized fully.

This annual lecture was established by Glucksman Ireland House in 2006 to commemorate Barra Ó Donnabháin, a beloved and influential teacher and advocate of the language. Ó Donnabháin, from Leap, Co. Cork, took a degree in Irish and Latin at University College Cork and immigrated to the US in 1963. One of the leading Irish linguists in the tri-state area, Barra wrote an Irish language column in the Irish Echo for many years as well as contributing essays and articles to a variety of other publications. In 2008 Daltaí na Gaeilge published a bilingual collection of 32 of his essays, Súil Siar: Cnuasach Aistí le Barra Ó Donnabháin, edited and translated by Hilary Mhic Suibhne, Irish language lecturer at NYU, and Eileen Zurrell.

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