Teasaras Gaeilge-Bearla | Irish-English Thesaurus

Faoin Udar Fuair an Dr GARRY BANNISTER a oideachas i gColaiste na Trionoide i mBaile Atha Cliath, ait a ndearnadh se staidear ar an Ghaeilge agus an Ruisis. Chuaigh se ar scolaireacht go Mosco i 1977. Ba ansin a bhain se ceim amach i dteanga agus i nualitriocht na Ruisise agus PhD sa teangeolaiocht chomparaideach. I dtosach na n-ochtoidi chuir se an chead Roinn le Nua-Ghaeilge ar bun i StatOllscoil Mhosco. Ar fhilleadh do abhaile bhi se ina cheannaire ar feadh triocha bliain ar Roinn na Gaeilge i gColaiste Choilm Bhaile Atha Cliath. Agus, o am go cheile, bhi se ina leachtoir ar cuairt i gColaiste Phadraig, Droim Conrach, ait inar thug se leachtai ar Nualitriocht na Gaeilge.Chomhoibrigh se fosta in aistriuchain ar thaisci liteartha na Gaeilge le David Sowby (An tOileanach), Alan Titley (Cre na Cille), Gabriel Rosenstock (Comhra le Li He). Ta se ina udar ar Fhocloir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Ruisis Liom, Essential Irish agus ar thri eagran nios luaithe den teasaras nua breisithe seo. Le deanai, thainig leabhair eile uaidh amhail an fhoinse thagartha ud ar a bhfuil buanghnaoi an phobail, Proverbs in Irish, What's That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook agus aistriuchain le trachtaireachtai ar na Coain chlasaiceacha Zen, A Path Home - Conair Siar, na leabhair uile sin foilsithe ag New Island. About the AuthorDr GARRY BANNISTER was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied Irish and Russian. On a scholarship to Moscow in 1977, he received a degree in Russian language and literature and also completed a PhD in comparative linguistics. He set up the first Department of Modern Irish at Moscow State University in the early 1980s. Upon his return to Ireland, he taught at St Columba's College in Dublin, where he was head of the Irish Department for nearly thirty years. He has also been a visiting lecturer on modern Irish literature at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra.He has worked on the translations of Irish literary classics such as An tOileanach with David Sowby, Cre na Cille with Alan Titley and Comhra le Li He with Gabriel Rosenstock. He is the author of Focloir an Fhoghlaimeora, Labhair Ruisis Liom, Essential Irish, and three earlier editions of his Irish-English Thesaurus. More recently, his work includes the perennially popular Proverbs in Irish, What's That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook and the first comprehensive translation of classical Zen koans in English and Irish, A Path Home - Conair Siar, all published by New Island. -- AKW