North American Gaels Conference Timetable

The Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx Languages in Canada and the United States The conference now has its own dedicated website at northamericangaels.wordpress.com but updates will also be posted here. A PDF version of the timetable is available for download here. For an online version of the timetable, see the post below. A letter size …

North American Gaels Conference

(PUBLIC VERY WELCOME, NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY) School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal Date: 14-15 April 2023 Location: Hall Building, Room 1001 (10th Floor) The North American Gaels Conference brings together over twenty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the Gaelic languages in North America. Featuring experts on Scots Gaelic, Irish, Manx …

Literature, Translation and Transport

Frank Packard's first edition of Adventures of Jimmie Dale is a book about New York. The very first lines set the scene: Among New York's fashionable and ultra-exclusive clubs, the St. James stood an acknowledged leader—more men, perhaps, cast an envious eye at its portals, of modest and unassuming taste, as they passed by on …

Translation, Disguise and Séamus Ó Duibhir

The printed book in Irish has a patchy history. For some hundreds of years after the advent of the printing press to western Europe, readers of the language could not help but observe that the numbers and the types of books available to them were relatively restricted. Compared to, for example, the amount of material …

Eachtraí Shéamuis Uí Dhuibhir / The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

Montréal-born author Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) may not be a household name these days but he is credited by some as creating the precursor to Batman: millionaire playboy, New Yorker, safe-maker, safe-buster and masked crime fighter, Jimmie Dale. Packard originally published the escapades of Dale, variously spelled Jimmie and Jimmy, and his alter-ego The Gray …

Indigenous and International? Literature and the World

Minoritised languages are often thought of as being bound in various ways. They might be hemmed in geographically, spoken only in certain areas. They might be seen as restricted by their (smaller) number of speakers and (fewer) opportunities for public use. At an extreme, some may consider them conceptually confined, tied to a rigid vocabulary …