Scol¨¢ireacht Atlantach Dobbin bronnta ar Ph¨¢draig ? Liath¨¢in

T¨¢ Scol¨¢ireacht Atlantach Dobbin bronnta ar Ph¨¢draig ? Liath¨¢in, ag an ICUF (Ireland Canada University Foundation). Mar chuid den scol¨¢ireacht seo beidh P¨¢draig ag dul i mbun taighde in Albain Nua agus i dTalamh an ?isc i gCeanada ar scr¨ªobh agus ar l¨¦amh na Gaeilge sna b¨®la¨ª sin san ocht¨² agus sa nao¨² haois d¨¦ag. T¨¢ l¨¦iri¨² glinn sna l¨¢mhscr¨ªbhinn¨ª at¨¢ aimsithe agus c¨ªortha ag P¨¢draig ar ghluaiseacht idirn¨¢isi¨²nta na litr¨ªochta Gaeilge siar trasna an Atlantaigh agus ar litearthacht na nGael i gc¨¦in ina dteanga f¨¦in - rud nach gcuirtear san ¨¢ireamh i gc¨®na¨ª agus daoine ag scr¨ªobh faoin diasp¨®ra Gaelach le linn na dtr¨¦imhs¨ª sin. Is ¨ª aidhm na Scol¨¢ireachta¨ª seo n¨¢ cur leis na ceangail idir oirthear Cheanada agus ?irinn, agus cuims¨ªonn siad gach r¨¦imse taighde ollscoile.

A Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship has been awarded to Dr P¨¢draig ? Liath¨¢in, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (link above). The Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship Programme builds on the shared heritage between Atlantic Canada and Ireland, with a view to developing a new generation of academic, artistic, cultural and economic links between these two regions.

The project title is ¡®Important Transatlantic Connections: Literary Sources in the Irish language in Transatlantic Canada', and explores Irish language eighteenth- and nineteenth-century manuscripts in North America. In many cases, these were written in Ireland and brought across the Atlantic, but some were also transcribed in the New World. It is evident from manuscripts currently housed in libraries across North America, that evidence of the literacy of the Irish-speaking diaspora in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been undervalued, as tens of thousands of pages of Irish language literature written in North America have survived. By taking, for the purposes of this project, specific examples of manuscripts taken to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Dr ? Liath¨¢in will endeavour to show the literary connections between Ireland and Atlantic Canada in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.