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Mícheál Ó hAodha (Ollscoil Luimnigh)
DATES
13
Nollaig / December
Time: 2.00pm
SAOR IN AISCE/FREE
Is é Mícheál Ó hAodha (Ollscoil Luimnigh) a d’aistrigh an t-úrscéal dírbheathaisnéiseach Mo Bhealach Féin a foilsíodh sa bhliain 1940, leabhar a bhfuil stádas cultais aige i measc léitheoirí na Gaeilge. Tá fáil anois fá dheoidh ar an leagan Béarla de, This Road of Mine. Duine de mhórúdair na hÉireann é Seosamh Mac Grianna (1900–1990). Ar nós an Chadhnaigh agus an Ríordánaigh, ceannródaí ab ea é a raibh an traidisiún béil laistiar de ach fós dearcadh nua-aoiseach aige.
Mícheál Ó hAodha is the translator of the classic semi-autobiographical road-trip novel Mo Bhealach Féin, first published in 1940, and a cult classic in the Irish language. It is now finally available in translation as This Road of Mine. Its author, Seosamh Mac Grianna (1900–1990) was one of the most important 20th century writers in modern Irish. Along with Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Seán Ó Ríordáin, he broke new ground in his successful fusion of the oral Gaelic tradition with a modernist literary perspective, all of this against the background of the emergent Irish state.



