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 The dictionary remained unpublished.

Identifiers
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
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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.

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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.

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Codicological information
State of existence
incomplete
Material
paper
Dimensions
11.5 ″ × 14.5 ″
Palaeographical information
Layout
Typically, four columns each page.

Sources

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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

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Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2021, last updated: May 2022