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An Cléireach (Gaelic: The Clerk) is a novel by the Irish writer Darach Ó Scolaí, published in 2007 and winner of the 2007 Oireachtas Prize for Literature. It is set during the English Civil War. The protagonist and narrator is a soldier and clerk in dispute with his colonel over a promotion. In north Munster in the year 1650, as the remnants of the royalist army flee from the victorious parliamentarians, a band of poets and soldier-scribes are brought together and, regardless of the proximity of the enemy, spend the night storytelling.
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| dbo:abstract | An Cléireach (Gaelic: The Clerk) is a novel by the Irish writer Darach Ó Scolaí, published in 2007 and winner of the 2007 Oireachtas Prize for Literature. It is set during the English Civil War. The protagonist and narrator is a soldier and clerk in dispute with his colonel over a promotion. In north Munster in the year 1650, as the remnants of the royalist army flee from the victorious parliamentarians, a band of poets and soldier-scribes are brought together and, regardless of the proximity of the enemy, spend the night storytelling. In the stories recounted by Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh, Toirdhealbhach Carach Ó Conchubhair and Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh, another theme surfaces in the novel, the story of a young man who has been entrusted with the safekeeping of an ancient psalter that has been in his family's keeping for three hundred years, and who has to flee abroad with the book as the Tudor conquest of Ireland is completed by 1601. His hereditary responsibility brings him to the Spanish Netherlands, to Bohemia where he takes part in the Battle of White Mountain as a musketeer in captain Somhairle Mac Domhnaill's company, and from there to the Irish College of St Anthony in Leuven (Louvain), in the company of Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and Father Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, and finally back to Ireland during the wars of the Irish Catholic Confederation and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. And although the dispute between the narrator and the colonel is brought to a head that night in Ireland, the final strands of the novel are brought together in 1667 as the narrator lives in exile in the Spanish Netherlands. Tadhg Dubh Ó Cróinín in The Limerick Leader emphasizes the credibility and verisimilitude of the writing that succeeds in convincing the reader that at all times he is in the centre of the vortex no matter where the action takes him.[2] Philip Cummings in Lá Nua reads the novel as a contemporary fiction, drawing attention to the author's tricks and modern conscious narrative.[3] (en) Úrscéal leis an scríbhneoir agus drámadóir Éireannach Darach Ó Scolaí is ea An Cléireach. Bhuaigh an t-úrscéal Duais an Oireachtais i 2007, agus Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin i 2008.. D'fhoilsigh Leabhar Breac an leabhar i 2007. Saighdiúir agus cléireach atá in earráid lena choirnéal faoi ardú céime is ea fear inste an scéil. I dtuaisceart na Mumhan sa bhliain 1650, agus fuíleach arm an rí ag cúlú ó fhórsaí na parlaiminte, castar buíon filí agus scríobhaithe ar a chéile agus, beag beann ar an namhaid atá sna sála orthu, caitheann siad oíche ag seanchas cois tine. Sna scéalta a insíonn Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh, Toirdhealbhach Carrach Ó Conchubhair agus an Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh, tagann plota eile chun cinn san úrscéal, fear óg a leagtar mar chúram air leabhar beannaithe, atá i seilbh a mhuintire le trí chéad bliain, a thabhairt slán ó ionradh Shasana ar an tír i 1601. Tugann an cúram oidhreachtúil seo as Éirinn go dtí an Ísiltír Spáinneach é, as sin go dtí an Bhóihéim, áit a nglacann sé páirt i gCath an tSléibhe Bháin mar mhuscaedóir i gcomplacht an chaptaein Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, agus as sin go Coláiste Naomh Antaine sa Lobháin i gcuideachta an Bhráthair Micheál Ó Cléirigh, an Bhráthair Eoghan Rua Mac an Bhaird, agus an athar Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, agus ar ais go hÉirinn i lár Chogadh na Comhdhála agus Chogadh Chromail. Cé go dtagann an t-aighneas idir an cléireach agus an coirnéal chun cinn roimh dheireadh na hoíche seanchais sin in Éirinn, is sa bhliain 1667 a thugtar snátha an scéil le chéile agus fear inste an scéil ar deoraíocht in Ostend na hÍsiltíre. Leagann Tadhg Dubh Ó Cróinín sa Limerick Leader béim ar inchreidteacht agus dealraitheacht na scríbhneoireachta a mheallann an léitheoir isteach sa scéal agus a chuireann ina luí air go bhfuil sé i gcorplár na cuilithe pé áit a ngluaiseann an t-aicsean. Is ar an úrscéal mar fhicsean comhaimseartha a chuireann Philip Cummings béim in Lá Nua agus ar chleasaíocht an údair, agus in insint féin-chomhfhiosach an scéalaí san úrscéal ach go háirithe. (ga) |
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| rdfs:comment | An Cléireach (Gaelic: The Clerk) is a novel by the Irish writer Darach Ó Scolaí, published in 2007 and winner of the 2007 Oireachtas Prize for Literature. It is set during the English Civil War. The protagonist and narrator is a soldier and clerk in dispute with his colonel over a promotion. In north Munster in the year 1650, as the remnants of the royalist army flee from the victorious parliamentarians, a band of poets and soldier-scribes are brought together and, regardless of the proximity of the enemy, spend the night storytelling. (en) Úrscéal leis an scríbhneoir agus drámadóir Éireannach Darach Ó Scolaí is ea An Cléireach. Bhuaigh an t-úrscéal Duais an Oireachtais i 2007, agus Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin i 2008.. D'fhoilsigh Leabhar Breac an leabhar i 2007. (ga) |
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