Review: Glór ón Sceilg, by Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic, edited by  Máirín Nic Eoin and Mary Shine Thompson

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https://doi.org/10.33178/aigne.vol11.b11

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Luke Ó Donnchadha reviews Glór ón Sceilg, by Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic, edited by Máirín Nic Eoin and Mary Shine Thompson. Cork University Press, 2025. 216 pp. €25.00 (Hardcover) (ISBN: 9781782050179)

A review of Glór ón Sceilg, a collection of excerpts from the writings of Mícheál Ua Ciarmhaic. Topics discussed include: The quality of Ua Ciarmhaic's writing, the merits of the editing, Ua Ciarmhaic's works in the context of other Gaeltacht writers.

Author Biography

  • Luke Ó Donnchadha, University College Cork

    Doctoral student in Modern Irish at University College Cork (UCC) focusing on eighteenth and nineteenth century Irish-language manuscripts from Co. Cork. He was awarded a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant scholarship and taught Irish in the University of Montana Missoula for the academic year 2024–2025. He received his master’s degree from UCC in 2024 with a dissertation focusing on stories of the Fianna from the collection Fionn agus Lorcán (1901).

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2026-02-12

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Vol. 11 (2025): Response: Reflection and Action

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Book Reviews

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