Manuscripts

Belfast, Queen’s University Library, MS 1/153 MacAdam’s Irish-English dictionary

English, Irish
1842 x 1856
Irish manuscripts
paper

Paper manuscript compiled for Robert Shipboy MacAdam in the middle of the 19th century, containing a substantial, alphabetically arranged collection of materials made in preparation for an English–(Ulster) Irish dictionary. The project was undertaken by MacAdam, who worked together with Aodh Mac Domhnaill, a native speaker from County Meath. The manuscript consists of 23 (port)folios, lacking letter F and the beginning of G, and numbers around 1145 pages. The dictionary remained unpublished.

General

Identifiers

Location

Ireland Belfast, Queen's University Library

Shelfmark

1/153

Title

MacAdam’s Irish-English dictionary

Type

dictionaries

Provenance and related aspects

Language

English, Irish

Date

1842 x 1856

Between 1842 and 1856 (Beckett).

Origin, provenance

Origin: Ulster

Ulster/Cúige Uladh

No short description available

See more ass. with Mac Ádhaimh (Roibeard)

Mac Ádhaimh (Roibeard)

(1808–1895)

Robert Shipboy MacAdam, Irish Presbyterian scholar and antiquarian from Belfast; co-founded Ulster Gaelic Society and the Belfast Museum; editor of the Ulster Journal Archaeology.

See more Mac Domhnaill (Aodh) [1802-1867]Mac Domhnaill (Aodh) ... 1802-1867

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Hands, scribes

Patron

Mac Ádhaimh (Roibeard)

Mac Ádhaimh (Roibeard)

(1808–1895)

Robert Shipboy MacAdam, Irish Presbyterian scholar and antiquarian from Belfast; co-founded Ulster Gaelic Society and the Belfast Museum; editor of the Ulster Journal Archaeology.

Codicological information

State of existence

incomplete

Material

paper

Dimensions

11.5 ″ × 14.5 ″

Palaeographical information

Layout

Typically, four columns each page.

Irish manuscripts

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

Digitisation wanted

Edition wanted

Secondary sources (select)

Archives Hub, Online: JISC, ?–present. URL: <https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk>.

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direct link

Hughes, A. J., “The Ulster Gaelic Society and the work of MacAdam’s Irish scribes”, in: Fionntán de Brún (ed.), Belfast and the Irish language, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 65–100.

Hughes, A. J., Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808–95): his life and Gaelic proverb collection, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 1998.

Beckett, Colm, “Staidéar ar fhoclóir lámhscríofa Béarla-Gaeilge roibeaird S. MhicÁdhaimh / A study of Robert S. McAdam’s manuscript English-Irish dictionary”, PhD thesis, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995.

Ó Buachalla, Breandán, I mBéal Feirste cois cuain, Leabhair thaighde, 16, Dublin: An Clóchomhar, 1968.

232–236, 282, 287