Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2009
An tSraith ar Lár
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
ISBN 978-0-86289-050-6
Bog/Paperback
Sa mbliain 1967, ceithre bliana déag tar éis do Mháirtín Ó Cadhain Cois Caoláire a chur i gcló, a foilsíodh an cnuasach gearrscéalta An tSraith ar Lár. Bhí na ceithre bliana déag sin caite ag an údar le hagóidíocht, feachtasaíocht agus cúiseanna éagsúla. Ach ba le linn na tréimhse céanna seo a rinne sé scríbhneoir nua-aoiseach de féin. Sa leabhar seo a fhaightear an Cadhnach agus é tagtha in inmhe mar scríbhneoir: uaidh seo amach dhíreodh sé ar an gcathair agus ar mhuintir na cathrach seachas ar an tuath agus ar an nGaeltacht. Agus is iad na fir seachas na mná is mó is cás leis feasta. Bhuaigh an leabhar seo duais an Fhorais Cultúir Gael-Meiriceánach i mbliain a fhoilsithe.
This collection was first published in 1967, fourteen years after Máirtín Ó Cadhain published Cois Caoláire. He had spent the subsequent years involved in community organising for various civil rights causes, in lobbying and in protests. It was also during this time that Ó Cadhain matured as a writer: from this point onwards he would focus his attention on the city and urban communities instead of a rural setting and the Gaeltacht. His attention also moved to men as main characters instead of women. This book was awarded the Irish American Cultural Institute’s literary award in the year of its original publication.
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