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Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúileabháin ‘The diary of Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin’

Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin
  • Modern Irish
  • prose
  • extent: more or less complete

Diary or journal written largely in Irish by Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin of Callan (Co. Kilkenny) between January 1827 and July 1835. Its observations on different aspects of Irish society are considered an invaluable resource for the history of 19th-century Ireland.

Author
Ó Súilleabháin (Amhlaoibh)
Ó Súilleabháin (Amhlaoibh)
(1783–1838)
Irish businessman, storyteller and schoolteacher, known for writing a diary, largely in Irish, between 1827 and 1835.
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Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 48 (51) [s. xix]
Diary for the year 1827.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 23 (52) [s. xix]
Diary for the year 1828.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 26 (53) [s. xix]
Diary for the years 1829-1835.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 4 A 35 (938) [s. xix]
Transcript.
Language
  • Modern Irish
  • Secondary language(s): Modern English
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Subjects

Leinster
Leinster/Cúige Laighean
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Munster/Cúige Mumhan
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] McGrath, Michael [ed.], Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shúileabháin: The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan, 4 vols, Irish Texts Society, 30, 31, 32, 33, London: Irish Texts Society, 1936–1937.
[ed.] [tr.] McGrath, Michael [ed.], Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shúileabháin: The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan. I. From 1st January, 1827 to the end of August, 1828, 4 vols, vol. 1, Irish Texts Society, 30, London: Irish Texts Society, 1936.
[ed.] [tr.] McGrath, Michael [ed.], Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shúileabháin: The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan. II. From 1st September, 1828, to the end of December, 1830, 4 vols, vol. 2, Irish Texts Society, 31, London: Irish Texts Society, 1936.
[ed.] [tr.] McGrath, Michael [ed.], Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shúileabháin: The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan. III. From 1st January, 1831, to the end of December, 1833, 4 vols, vol. 3, Irish Texts Society, 32, London: Irish Texts Society, 1937.
[ed.] [tr.] McGrath, Michael [ed.], Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Ui Shúileabháin: The diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan. IV. From 1835-1836 (to July), 4 vols, vol. 4, Irish Texts Society, 33, London: Irish Texts Society, 1937.
[ed.] Ua Casaide, Séamus, “An Irish diary, 1827: Cinn-lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1 (1912–1913): 51–61, 177–183, 263–268.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Murchú, Liam P. (ed.), Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúileabháin: reassessments, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 14, London: Irish Texts Society, 2004.
Ua Casaide, Séamus, “An Irish diary, 1827: Cinn-lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1 (1912–1913): 51–61, 177–183, 263–268.
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