http://www.gaelport.com/index.php?page=clippings&id=1325&viewby=date

quote:

After the Flight of Earls in 1607, Gaelic bards, who had once been paid to lament the death of chieftains, now proclaimed the death of Gaelic tradition itself. But they did so in lines of such power as to throw the very idea into question.

Ever since, the Irish language and its literature have been pronounced extinct, only to return from a near-death experience in every generation. Ó Cadhain must have sensed that his own great book was but the latest proof of that vitality.

Ar chuala sibh go raibh set deas 8 dhluthdhiosca ar fáil leis an dramatic version déanta de? Cheannaigh mé é an tseachtain seo cháite agus tá mé ar diosa a trí anois. Tá sé chomh greanmhair agus bhfaighimse an jist cé go bhfuil sé lán le rudaí nach dtuigim go fóill. Chaith muid 2 bhliain á léamh thall i Washington, D.C. blianta ó shin ag saorthú linn Dé Domhanach amháin gach mí agus cé nár thuig mé ach píosaí randamacha de ag an pointe úd, tá sé iontach a bheith in ann dul ag éisteach leis na gutha uilig anois. Molaimse an set dluthdiosca go hard, mar sin, €40 sa siopa leabhair i sráid fhearcair (faigh autographed coip ó guth Dotie, más mían -- tá sí ag obair sa siopa -- honest!)
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Bhios ag leamh an leabhar darb ainm "Tarry Flynn" on t-udar Patrick kavangh le dearnai. Do cheapas gurb cosuil le "The Green Fool" on t-udar ceanna í. Bhuel nilim cinnte cé acu no nach fhuil Mairtin Ó Cadhain mar a cheile le Kavanagh ach mothaim gurb saorthar seisean nios doracha na Kavanagh. An bhfuil se sin fír? Is docha Measaim go mbeadh cuplá níthe áirithe a spreagádh mé i dtaobh obair Kavanagh nach bhfaighainn san obair eile. I'aineoin gurb fear siniciul ab e ar bun taobh ta taobh eile nios dochasach is gréannmhar ann a ritheann trid a chuid oibre. An bhfaigheann tu an rud ceanna sa saorthar Mairtin Ó Cadhain?

Na CDanna ó litríocht:

http://www.litriocht.com/shop/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=419 4

Ar bhfaca éinne an clár ar an Cadhanach aréir?..an suimúil..is mór an trua nach bhfuil RTE1 le fáil ar an idirlíon mar átá TG4 anois...

Ar bhfaca éinne an clár ar an Cadhanach aréir?..an suimúil..is mór an trua nach bhfuil RTE1 le fáil ar an idirlíon mar átá TG4 anois...

Ní fhaca, ós rud é go raibh mé amuigh. Tá sé ar téip agam tá súil agam, agus tá sé i gceist agam féachaint ar anocht.

aonghus ( nó duine eile)
could you provide a summary (or a transcription 7 translation, if ambitious!) of what Ó Cadhain
says in his interview
"On the future of the Gaeltacht "
on rte
más é do thoil é
grma

Hmm. Níor fhéach mé air fós. Mar sin, ní gheallfaidh mé rud ar bith!

Is dócha go raibh sé duairc go maith!

Ar bhfaca einne an clar ar abhar Maitin O Cadhain ar RTE TV areir? Fiuntach!

Ní fhaca, faraor ghéar. Cheap me nach raibh sé le bheith go ceann seachtaine eile.

Beidh orm feithimh ar an athchraoladh!

Ceapaim gurb athchraoladh a bhi ann. It had the look of a programme made in the 70s (a lot of dodgy haircuts and fashions and primitive name captions on the interview shots)

your man died in 1970, so it mustn't have been too far into the 70's! (ach, mar sin, ceart go leor)


"On the future of the Gaeltacht"
archived here...
http://www.rte.ie/tv/rianfhocail/interviews.html

cad é sin, 'duairc' (pessimistic?)?

duairc [aidiacht den chéad díochlaonadh]
gruama, gan áthas, gan aoibhneas.