Niamh

O‘Leary, Peter, 1839-1920Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 623K words
Chapters: 63

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Niamh by Peter O'LearyAuthor: O'Leary, Peter, 1839-1920,Language: Irish, Class: PB: Language and Literatures: General works, Release Date: Jan 13, 2016

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This work is Niamh, written in Irish. Its author, Peter O'Leary (1839–1920), was a nineteenth-century Irish literary figure. It comes from Project Gutenberg as a public-domain e-book and is classified under PB (Language and Literature, General). For Chinese readers its value lies not in the modern readability of its plot but in offering a sample of Irish-language text through which to observe nineteenth-century Irish writing and the continuity between folk narrative tradition and literary language. It is suitable as supplementary material for language and cultural research rather than as leisure reading. Readers are advised to understand it within the context of the Irish language revival and the collecting of folk tales, and not to expect a coherent Chinese narrative experience. If you are collecting public-domain literature in minority languages or studying Project Gutenberg's multilingual catalogue, this small book is a concrete, miniature entry point.

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O‘Leary, Peter, 1839-1920 Author · Irish · 1839–1920

Peter O'Leary (1839–1920) was an Irish Catholic priest and writer who took part in the Irish national and cultural movements. His writing was closely tied to these concerns, and his works often drew on Irish tradition; his representative work, Niamh, takes its title figure as the starting point for its narrative, reflecting a commitment to preserving and expressing national culture. Public information is limited, so the details of his life and the full range of his writing cannot be established with certainty. From the available information, however, he combined a religious vocation with the role of a cultural actor, using his position as a priest to attend to the continuity of the Irish language, legends, and national memory. His works carried significance for cultural preservation and the awakening of national consciousness at the time, and offer a sidelight on the Irish cultural movement of this period.