Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Graveyard Clay - Cré na Cille

Ó hÉigeartaigh, Cian, and Aoileann Nic Gearailt. 2014. Sáirséal agus Dill 1947–1981: Scéal Foilsitheora . Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnacht.

Ó hEithir, Breandán. 1973. Thar Ghealchathair Soir: Léacht a tugadh ag Scoil Gheimhridh Merriman . Dublin: Cumann Merriman.

—. 1977. “Cré na Cille.” In The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature , ed. John Jordan, 72–84. Dublin: Mercier Press.

Ó Gráinne, Diarmuid. 1990. An Dá Mháirtín . Dublin: Comhar Teoranta.

Ó Háinle, Cathal. 1978. Promhadh Pinn . Maynooth: An Sagart.

—. (ed.). 1998. Criostalú: Aistí ar Shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain . Dublin: Coiscéim.

—. 1998. “Cúig mo Láimhe Déanta.” In Criostalú: Aistí ar Shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain . Dublin: Coiscéim.

—. 2006. “Máirtín Mór Ó Cadhain: Tríonóideach.” Bliainiris 6:9–42.

—. 2008a. Scáthanna . Dublin: Coiscéim.

—. 2008b. “Barbed Wire Mháirtín Uí Chadhain.” In Ó Háinle 2008a, Scáthanna , 259–93.

—. 2009. “Máirtín Ó Cadhain.” In Dictionary of Irish Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002 , edited by James McGuire and James Quinn, Vol. 7, 136–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ó Laighin, Seán. 1990. Ó Cadhain i bhFeasta . Dublin: Clódhanna Teo.

O’Leary, Philip. 2010. Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose 1940–1951 . Dublin: UCD Press.

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Ó Neachtain, Joe Steve. 2013. Ag Caint Linn Féin . Indreabhán, Conamara: Cló Iar-Chonnacht.

Ó Tuama, Seán. 1955. “ Cré na Cille agus Séadna .” Comhar 14, no. 2 (February): 7–8, 29.

—. 1980. “Tiomna Roimh Bhás.” Comhar 39, no. 10 (October): 55–57.

Ó hUiginn, Ruairí. 2006. “Litreacha: Máirtín Ó Cadhain chuig Seosamh Daibhéid, 19 Meán Fómhair 1951.” In Bliainiris 6:256–70.

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Titley, Alan. 1975. Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Clár Saothair . Dublin: An Clóchomhar.

—. 1981. “Contemporary Irish Literature.” In Crane Bag 5, no. 2:890–96.

—. 1991. An tÚrscéal Gaeilge . Dublin: An Clóchomhar.

—. 1996. Chun Doirne: Rogha Aistí . Belfast: Lagan Press.

—. 2006. “The Novel in Irish.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel , edited by John Wilson Foster, 171–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

—. 2010. Scríbhneoirí faoi Chaibidil . Dublin: Cois Life.

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Vance, Norman. 2002. Irish Literature since 1800 . London: Longman.

Welch, Robert. 1993. Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing . London: Routledge.

Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart (eds.). 1996. “ Cré na Cille ” and “Máirtín Ó Cadhain.” In The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature , edited by Robert Welch, 119, 405–6. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Selected Audio-Visual Materials

1967. Ó Cadhain ar an gCnocán Glas , produced and directed by Aindreas Ó Gallchóir. Dublin: RTÉ.

1980. There Goes Cré na Cille , directed by Seán Ó Mórdha and scripted by Breandán Ó hEithir. Dublin: RTÉ.

2006. Cré na Cille: Leagan Drámatúil a Réitigh Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc Ó Coisdealbha (CDs). Dublin: RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnacht.

2006. Is Mise Stoc na Cille , directed by Macdara Ó Curraidhín, produced by ROSG. Conamara: TG4.

2007. Cré na Cille , directed by Robert Quinn, produced by ROSG. Conamara: TG4.

2010. Cré na Cille: 60 Bliain Os Cionn Talún , RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, produced by Dónall Ó Braonáin. Casla: RTÉ.

MÁIRTÍN Ó CADHAIN was born in 1906 and spent his formative years in An Cnocán Glas, An Spidéal (Spiddal), Conamara, County Galway. He won a scholarship to St. Patrick’s College in Dublin (1924–1926), after which he returned to the Galway Gaeltacht and taught in various schools there. In 1936 his membership of the proscribed Irish Republican Army led to his dismissal from Carnmore National School in East Galway. He was interned in the Curragh camp in County Kildare during the Second World War and on his release was appointed to the Translation Staff in Dáil Éireann. He was appointed lecturer in Irish at Trinity College Dublin in 1956, becoming associate professor in 1967, professor in 1969, and fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD) in 1970, the year he died. Best known for his novel Cré na Cille (1950), he also published several collections of short stories, including Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre (1939), An Braon Broghach (1948), Cois Caoláire (1953), An tSraith ar Lár (1967), An tSraith Dhá Tógáil (1970), and, posthumously, An tSraith Tógtha (1977). Two other novels, Athnuachan (1997) and Barbed Wire (2002), were published posthumously.

LIAM MAC CON IOMAIRE was born in 1937 in Casla, Conamara, County Galway. A teacher by profession, he was director of the Modern Irish Language Laboratory at University College Dublin between 1979 and 1996. He is the author of two biographies of key cultural figures, Breandán Ó hEithir: Iomramh Aonair (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2000) and Seosamh Ó hÉanaí: Nár Fhágha mé Bás Choíche (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2009). He has produced biographies of traditional singers in A Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Cambridge University Press, 1999 and 2011), and his Conamara: An Tír Aineoil (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 1997) is a celebratory portrait series of tradition-bearers from Conamara and Árainn. He was awarded an honorary degree by National University of Ireland Galway in 2013.

TIM ROBINSON was born in 1935 and brought up in Yorkshire. He graduated in mathematics from Cambridge and worked in Vienna and London as a visual artist. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands, of which he produced a map and the two volumes of Stones of Aran . Elected to Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists, in 1996, he was awarded an honorary degree by National University of Ireland Galway in 1997 and made a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011. He was Visiting Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2011 and writer in residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, in 2012. The publication by Penguin of his Conamara trilogy ( Listening to the Wind , 2006; The Last Pool of Darkness , 2008; and A Little Gaelic Kingdom , 2011) brought to a close a three-decade project of cartography and topographical writing.

1. Ó Cadhain 1969, 15. The full titles of works cited in the footnotes may be found in our bibliography at the end of the book, which lists texts written by Ó Cadhain, editions of Cré na Cille , translations, secondary literature, and selected audio-visual materials.

2. Ó Cadhain 1969, 26.

3. Ó Cadhain 1969, 27.