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University College Dublin. Period. 1902–58. Notable works. The Saxon Shillin, The King of Ireland's Son. Spouse. Mary Maguire. Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore. He was one of the leading figures of the Irish Literary ...
First awarded in 1990 (with the Book of the Decade Awards), there are currently seven prizes awarded: The KPMG Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award. Honour Award for Fiction. Honour Award for Illustration. Eilís Dillon Award (for a first children's book) - named in honour of writer Eilís Dillon. The Judges' Special Award.
History. First awarded in 2006, the Irish Book Awards grew out of the Hughes & Hughes bookstore's Irish Novel of the Year Prize, which was inaugurated in 2003. Since 2007 the Awards have been an independent not-for-profit company funded by sponsorship. Bord Gáis Energy sponsored the awards from 2012 until 2018, when An Post took over sponsorship.
Hedge schools ( Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal secret and illegal schools, particularly in 18th-century Ireland, teaching the rudiments of religious education to children of 'non-conforming' faiths ( Catholic and Presbyterian ). Prior to the 1792 repeal of the Education Act 1695, only ...
Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages.
Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots ( Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland. The earliest recorded Irish writing dates from back in the 7th century and was produced by monks writing in both Latin and Early Irish, including religious texts, poetry and mythological tales.