A NewYork-based linguistics professor from Galway, Ireland has released the first Irish-language public-domain audiobook, a 1901 collection of folklore from four West of Ireland counties entitled An Sgéaluidhe Gaedhealach (the Gaelic Storyteller).
Professor Brian Ó Broin, a linguistics professor at William Paterson University, New Jersey, recorded the 35 stories over a sixteen month period, beginning with a makeshift arrangement of midrange recording equipment and software before completing the project in the studios of his university's radio station, WPSC-FM. Over that period forty hours of raw recordings were edited down to thirteen hours in the final product.
The book, An Sgéaluidhe Gaedhealach, was compiled by Douglas Hyde, an important Gaelic Revival figure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who went on to become president of Ireland in 1938.
An Sgéaluidhe Gaedhaelach was the result of a folklore-collection project that Hyde began while still a university student at Trinity College, Dublin in the 1880s and was part of his lifelong campaign to demonstrate that Gaelic Ireland had a folk literature that was every bit as vigorous as any modern literature in Europe. The 35 stories, collected orally from accomplished storytellers in five Irish counties, provide an amazing cross-section of ancient and modern narrative, ranging from adventure stories from the first millennium to nearly-contemporary stories of ghosts, bandits, witches, lords, ladies, and buried treasure.
While several books in Irish have been recorded professionally, this is the first completely public-domain audiobook ever recorded in Irish, and is now available for free download in printed and recorded formats at www.librivox.org.
More Information: https://sites.google.com/view/sgeal/
Contact: Professor Brian Ó Broin, brianeanna [at] hotmail.com
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