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The Queen of the Hearth (Classics of Irish History)
Father Patrick Dineen
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Father Patrick Dinneen is justly famous as the compiler of Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla / An Irish-English Dictionary. His ideas reached a fairly wide audience in the nationalist community through his Irish-language column in The Leader, a column he contributed to with very few exceptions every week for more than twenty years. As the first real columnist writing in Irish, Dinneen used these newspaper pieces to deal with an impressively diverse range of topics, from American racism, to English poetry, to the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, but predictably enough he devoted most of his attention to ... Read more
Father Patrick Dinneen is justly famous as the compiler of Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla / An Irish-English Dictionary. His ideas reached a fairly wide audience in the nationalist community through his Irish-language column in The Leader, a column he contributed to with very few exceptions every week for more than twenty years. As the first real columnist writing in Irish, Dinneen used these newspaper pieces to deal with an impressively diverse range of topics, from American racism, to English poetry, to the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, but predictably enough he devoted most of his attention to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781906359720
SKU
9781906359720
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About Father Patrick Dineen
Philip O'Leary is Professor in the Department of English and a member of the Irish Studies program at Boston College. He is the author of a number of UCD Press titles including Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-39 (2004) and Writing Beyond the Revival: Facing the Future in Gaelic Prose, 1940-51 (2011).
Reviews for The Queen of the Hearth (Classics of Irish History)
'in an extensive introduction the editor, Dr Philip O'Leary, provides a valuable account in English of the author of the manuscript, Fr Patrick Dinneen, the distinguished lexicographer. This will be of interest to generations of students who came to know Padraig O Duinnin through his Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla but never acquired any further information about him.' Irish Catholic, ... Read more