Teasįras Gaeilge-Béarla | Irish-English Thesaurus [Hardback]

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Fuair an Dr GARRY BANNISTER a oideachas i gColįiste na Trķonóide i mBaile Įtha Cliath, įit a ndearnadh sé staidéar ar an Ghaeilge agus an Rśisis. Chuaigh sé ar scolįireacht go Moscó i 1977. Ba ansin a bhain sé céim amach i dteanga agus i nualitrķocht na Rśisise agus PhD sa teangeolaķocht chomparįideach.  I dtosach na n-ochtóidķ chuir sé an chéad Roinn le Nua-Ghaeilge ar bun i StįtOllscoil Mhoscó. Ar fhilleadh dó abhaile bhķ sé ina cheannaire ar feadh trķocha bliain ar Roinn na Gaeilge i gColįiste Choilm Bhaile Įtha Cliath. Agus, ó am go chéile, bhķ sé ina léachtóir ar cuairt i gColįiste Phįdraig, Droim Conrach, įit inar thug sé léachtaķ ar Nualitrķocht na Gaeilge.





Chomhoibrigh sé fosta in aistriśchįin ar thaiscķ liteartha na Gaeilge le David Sowby (An tOileįnach), Alan Titley (Cré na Cille), Gabriel Rosenstock (Comhrį le Lķ Hé). Tį sé ina śdar ar Fhoclóir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Rśisis Liom, Essential Irish agus ar thrķ eagrįn nķos luaithe den teasįras nua breisithe seo. Le déanaķ, thįinig leabhair eile uaidh amhail an fhoinse thagartha śd ar a bhfuil buanghnaoi an phobail, Proverbs in Irish, Whats That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook agus aistriśchįin le trįchtaireachtaķ ar na Cóįin chlasaiceacha Zen, A Path Home Conair Siar, na leabhair uile sin foilsithe ag New Island.





 





About the Author





Dr GARRY BANNISTER was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied Irish and Russian. On a scholarship to Moscow in 1977, he received a degree in Russian language and literature and also completed a PhD in comparative linguistics. He set up the first Department of Modern Irish at Moscow State University in the early 1980s. Upon his return to Ireland, he taught at St Columbas College in Dublin, where he was head of the Irish Department for nearly thirty years. He has also been a visiting lecturer on modern Irish literature at St Patricks College, Drumcondra.





He has worked on the translations of Irish literary classics such as An tOileįnach with David Sowby, Cré na Cille with Alan Titley and Comhrį le Lķ Hé with Gabriel Rosenstock. He is the author of Foclóir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Rśisis Liom, Essential Irish, and three earlier editions of his Irish-English Thesaurus. More recently, his work includes the perennially popular Proverbs in Irish, Whats That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook and the first comprehensive translation of classical Zen koans in English and Irish, A Path Home Conair Siar, all published by New Island.





 





 





 





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