Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
Cumann Staire Bhéarra / Beara Historical Society 2021
Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula
Is é is ábhar don leabhar seo duine fíorthábhachtach a mhair sna blianta sular bunaíodh Conradh na Gaeilge agus i mblianta luatha na gluaiseachta sin, Pádraig Ó Laoghaire / Patrick O’Leary (1870–1896), ó Leithinis Bhéarra in Iarthar Chorcaí. Pearsa imill is ea é in imeacht aimsire nach bhfuil ach corrthagairt dó in aon phlé ar athbheochan an náisiúnachais agus an chultúir Ghaelaigh i mblianta déanacha an naoú céad déag. Creideann Ní Úrdail gurbh é a bhás i mbláth na hóige is cúis leis seo, ach is dóigh léi chomh maith go ndearnadh dearmad air mar gheall ar an ról lárnach a bhí ag Laoghaireach eile ó Chúige Mumhan, an tAthair Peadar, ag an am. Staidéar nua ar Phádraig Ó Laoghaire ina áit agus ina am féin atá curtha ar fáil anseo, más ea, chomh maith le léargas sainiúil ar thréimhse a raibh mórthábhacht cultúrtha, teangeolaíoch agus polaitiúil ag baint léi.
The focus of this book is an utterly neglected, important figure from the period leading up to the foundation of the Gaelic League and the early years of that movement, Pádraig Ó Laoghaire / Patrick O’Leary (1870–1896), from the Béarra Peninsula in West Cork. Over time, he seems to find brief mention, if at all, in studies of the resurgence of Irish nationalism and culture in the final decades of the nineteenth-century. Ní Úrdail believes that this is because of his death at a young age, but she also maintains that his legacy was overshadowed by that of the other famous Ó Laoghaire and towering figure from Cork, ‘An tAthair Peadar’. Here, then, is a new study of Pádraig Ó Laoghaire in his own place and time as well as a distinctive insight into a period of enormous cultural, linguistic and political significance.
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