Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla | Irish-English Thesaurus

Níl amhras ar bith nach bhfuil toirt agus téagar sa Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla a thiomsaigh Garry Bannister. Is breá go deo an leabhar í.

If a thesaurus is typically a book or electronic resource that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts, the Teasáras does this and more. In fact, if anything, it is more like a one-stop-shop for the Irish language or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Irish But Were Afraid to Ask … Part of the pleasure of the Teasáras is losing oneself in the endless possibilities of the language, as the headword kickstarts a stream of associations… . A crucial contribution of the Teasáras is showing how a fuller knowledge of Irish offers opportunities for seeing in a deeper, more context-sensitive way.

Faoin Údar

Fuair an Dr GARRY BANNISTER a oideachas i gColáiste na Tríonóide i mBaile Átha Cliath, áit a ndearnadh sé staidéar ar an Ghaeilge agus an Rúisis. Chuaigh sé ar scoláireacht go Moscó i 1977. Ba ansin a bhain sé céim amach i dteanga agus i nualitríocht na Rúisise agus PhD sa teangeolaíocht chomparáideach. I dtosach na n-ochtóidí chuir sé an chéad Roinn le Nua-Ghaeilge ar bun i StátOllscoil Mhoscó. Ar fhilleadh dó abhaile bhí sé ina cheannaire ar feadh tríocha bliain ar Roinn na Gaeilge i gColáiste Choilm Bhaile Átha Cliath. Agus, ó am go chéile, bhí sé ina léachtóir ar cuairt i gColáiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach, áit inar thug sé léachtaí ar Nualitríocht na Gaeilge.

Chomhoibrigh sé fosta in aistriúcháin ar thaiscí liteartha na Gaeilge le David Sowby (An tOileánach), Alan Titley (Cré na Cille), Gabriel Rosenstock (Comhrá le Lí Hé). Tá sé ina údar ar Fhoclóir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Rúisis Liom, Essential Irish agus ar thrí eagrán níos luaithe den teasáras nua breisithe seo. Le déanaí, tháinig leabhair eile uaidh amhail an fhoinse thagartha úd ar a bhfuil buanghnaoi an phobail, Proverbs in Irish, What’s That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook agus aistriúcháin le tráchtaireachtaí ar na Cóáin chlasaiceacha Zen, A Path Home – Conair Siar.

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 Columba’s 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 Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.

He has worked on the translations of Irish literary classics such as An tOileánach with David Sowby, Cré na Cille with Alan Titley and Comhrá le Lí Hé with Gabriel Rosenstock. He is the author of Foclóir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Rúisis Liom, Essential Irish, and three earlier editions of his Irish-English Thesaurus. More recently, his work includes the perennially popular Proverbs in Irish, What’s 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.

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