Pádraig Ó Siadhail was born in
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...
,
Northern Ireland
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, in 1957, and now lives in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
, Canada.
He is a scholar and writer and has published prolifically in the
Irish language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...
.
Among his works are the murder mystery ''Peaca an tSinsir'' (1996), a collection of short stories under the title ''Seacht gCineál Meisce agus Finscéalta Eile'' (2001), a historical novel entitled ''Beirt Bhan Mhisniúla'' (2011), a biography of
Piaras Béaslaí
Piaras Béaslaí (; 15 February 1881 – 22 June 1965) was an Irish author, playwright, biographer and translator, who was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, fought in the Easter Rising and served as a member of Dáil Éireann.
Early ...
, Irish nationalist and writer, and a collection of essays about Canada, ''Idir Dhá Thír: Sceitsí ó Cheanada'' (2005). He has also published a biography of
Katherine Hughes (1876–1925), a Canadian-born Irish Republican activist and propagandist.
He is a lecturer at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, where he specialises in Irish Studies. He is a past president of the
Canadian Association for Irish Studies, has edited a number of scholarly and literary collections and has published many scholarly articles in Irish and English.
Selected publications
''Katherine Hughes. A Life and a Journey''. Newcastle, Ontario:
Penumbra Press 2014
''Beirt Bhan Mhisniúla''. Indreabhan:
Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Cló Iar-Chonnacht (CIC; ; "West Connacht Press") is an Irish language publishing company founded in 1985 by writer Micheál Ó Conghaile, a native speaker of Irish from Inis Treabhair in Connemara. He set the company up while still a student.
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2011.
''An Béaslaíoch: Beatha agus Saothar Phiarais Béaslaí, 1881-1965''. Dublin:
Coiscéim
Coiscéim (; "Footstep") is a prolific Dublin-based Irish-language publisher founded by writer, historian and language activist Pádraig Ó Snodaigh in 1980. With over 1,500 titles Coiscéim have published the largest number of titles amongst the 2 ...
2007.
''Idir Dhá Thír: Sceitsí ó Cheanada''. Belfast: Lagan Press 2005.
''Na Seacht gCineál Meisce agus Finscéalta Eile''. Indreabhán, Galway: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2001.
''Peaca an tSinsir''. Indreabhan: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 1996.
''Éagnairc''. Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 1994.
''Stair Dhrámaíocht na Gaeilge, 1900-1970''. Indreabhán, Galway: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 1993.
''Parthas na gCleas''. Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 1991.
Selected articles
"James Mooney: The 'Indian Man,' and the 'Irish Catholic.'" In Graeme Morton and David A. Wilson (eds.), ''Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples. Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia''. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2013, 49–70.
"‘Anna Ghordún’ agus an ‘Gaberlunzie Man.’ Nóta faisnéise faoi Anne Gordon Rudmose-Brown agus faoi Phádraic Ó Conaire," in Eoin Mac Cárthaigh & Jürgen Uhlich (eds.), Féilscríbhinn do Chathal Ó Háinle. Indreabhán: An Clóchomhar/Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2012, 915-933.
"Odd Man Out: Micheál Ó Conghaile and Contemporary Irish language Queer Prose," ''Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'', Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2010, 143–161.
"James Mooney, ‘The Indian Man’, agus Béaloideas na hÉireann," ''Béaloideas'', Vol./Iml. 77, 2009, 1-36.
"Bunú an Fháinne agus Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916," ''Taighde agus Teagasc'', Imleabhar 6 (2008), 174–193.
References
External links
Page on the Saint Mary’s University websiteMáirín Nic Eoin, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transnational Irish-Language Writing,' 12 April 2013.
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1968 births
Living people
Northern Ireland emigrants to Canada
Irish male short story writers
Irish-language writers
Writers from Derry (city)
Irish male novelists
21st-century Irish novelists
21st-century Irish short story writers
21st-century Irish male writers