Leabhar Breac

Fontenoy was awarded the Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin ‘Book of the Year’ in 2006 and is now in its third edition.

This wonderful collection comprises of prose excerpts from Irish literature of the period 1450-1850 collected and edited by Anraí Mac Giolla Chomhaill and published in modern spelling — with a biographical portrait of the author by Prof. Malachy Ó Néill

‘Conas is fearr do dhaoine a saol a chaitheamh?’ Sin an cheist fealsúnachta is sine agus is práinní dá bhfuil ann. Is mian le gach duine saol maith a chaitheamh, ach cad é go díreach atá i gceist leis sin agus conas is féidir é a dhéanamh?

‘Conas is féidir duine a shábháil nuair nach dtuigeann sé féin go bhfuil sé i gcontúirt?’

Cnuasach aistí taighde bunaithe ar rogha páipéar a léadh ag comhdháil idirnáisiúnta lán-Ghaeilge a tionóladh i bPrág i Méan Fómhair 2017. Tugann aistí áirithe anseo léargas nua ar an gcaidreamh cultúrtha idir Éire agus an Eoraip, go stairiúil agus sa lá atá inniu ann. Scrúdaíonn aistí eile coincheapa na tairsí agus na tairseachúlachta i nuaphrós agus i nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge, agus pléann na haistí deireanacha sa chnuasach seánraí scríbhneoireachta atá ar imeall na canóine.

For anyone interested in Ma´ire Mhac an tSaoi’s collected work, this book offers further evidence of the formidable authority of language and imagination that are signature features of all her writing in Irish.

Cuairt San Nioclás (A Visit from Saint Nicholas), also known as ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’, has been called “arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American” and is a great favourite with children all over the world. This beautiful picture-book is illustrated by the renowned artist Jessie Wilcox Smith.