Colmcille Press authors in the headlines

It has been a busy time for Colmcille Press authors, whose new books have been making waves in regional and national media this week.

Financial journalist Paul Gosling has been writing about the island's readiness for a referendum in The Irish Times and has also featured in an extended interview on Newstalk.

Royal Literary Fellow Felicity McCall was interviewed on BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson Show (@40 mins) and also featured in both the Derry Journal and Derry News.

McCall will be launching her 'memoir-inspired' short story collection 'What We Did On Our Holidays' at Derry's Central Library on November 15.

And barrister Conor Bowman SC was interviewed about his new fiction centred on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home by BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence presenter Audrey Carville (@29 mins). 'The Half-Life of Edith Hopkins will be launched in the Law Library, Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin next Thursday, October 30.

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Ceacht 3: Foghlaim Gaeilge le 'Claisceadal cois Baile'

Bríd Óg Ní Mháille

Ag ceiliúradh foghlama na Gaeilge trí sheanamhráin, curtha in eagar ag Risteard Mac Gabhann

Ceacht 3: Bríd Óg Ní Mháille– Young Bríd O'Malley

Amhrán grá a aithnítear go forleathan ar fud Éireann agus a thagann i dtosach,

de réir na logainmneacha a luaitear sna véarsaí, ó Chontae Mhaigh Eo. Amhrán

simplí tíre é ach tá sé maisithe go galánta le patrún saibhir ornáidí (rím agus

uaim).

A popular love song of the folk tradition, which, judging from the placenames

mentioned in its verses, probably originated in County Mayo. The song also

has a quite rich pattern of traditional ornamentation (vowel rhymes and

alliteration), as indicated in the first verse.

Téacs an amhráin agus an t-aistriúchán/Text of the song and translation

'S a Bhríd Óg Ní Mháille ‘s tú a d’fhág mo chroí cráite,

And young Bríd O’Malley, it is you who left my heart tormented,

'S chuir tú arraingeacha an bháis trí cheartlár mo chroí,

And sent stabbing pains of death through the very centre of my heart,

Tá na céadta fear i ngrá le d’éadan ciúin náireach,

Hundreds of men are in love with your serene, demure look [lit. brow]

'S gur thug tú barr breáthacht’ ar Thír Amhlaigh más fíor.

And you have conquered all of Tirawley for loveliness.

Níl ní ar bith is áille ná an ghealach os cionn an tsáile,

There’s nothing more beautiful than the moon above the sea,

Ná bláth bán na n-airní, a bhíos ag fás ar an draighean,

Or the white blossom of the sloes growing on the blackthorn,

Oró! siúd mar a bhíos mo ghrása níos trilsí le breáthacht,

Oh! that’s how my love is, more radiant in loveliness

Béilín meala na háilleacht’ nach ndearna riamh claon.

The little honeyed mouth of beauty that never deceived.

Is tuirseach agus is brónach a chaithimse an Domhnach,

Wearily and in sorrow I while away my Sundays,

Mo hata i mo dhorn ‘s mé ag osnaíl go trom,

Clenching my hat (lit.in my fist) and sighing heavily,

'S mé ag amharc ar na bóithre, a mbíonn mo ghrá geal ag gabháil ann,

Watching the roads she is wont to walk,

Anois ag fear eile pósta a’s gan í a bheith liom.

Now married to another man, no longer with me.

Leagan iontach Síle Ní Fhlaithearta anseo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YrnF7HaMo

Faigh an leabhar anseo

McCall's 'beautiful little' collection now in the shops

Author Felicity McCall presenting a copy of 'What We Did On Our Holidays' to Kiefer Averilll, branch manager, Waterside Library

Felicity McCall's new short-story collection 'What We Did On Our Holidays' will be officially launched on Saturday November 15m at Derry's Central Library, at an event supported by Libraries NI. (Booking advisable.)

The new book is now available from local libraries, and from Waterstones and Foyle Books. You can also order copies from Colmcille Press.

It has been warmly previewed in the North West media, including by BBC Radio Foyle's Mark Patterson, who described the book as a collection of 'beautiful little testimonials'.

McCall's interview with The Patterson Show is available below, starting at 37mins 30secs.

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