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Tomás Laighléis (1895 - 1984) was a traditional Irish
Seanchaí A seanchaí ( or ; plural: ) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian, serving as an oral repository. In Scottish Gaelic the word is (; plural: ). The word is often anglicised as shanachie ( ). The word , which was spelled (plural ...
or storyteller. A native of
Menlo, County Galway Menlo or Menlough () is a village and townland in one of the Gaeltacht areas of County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located about 3 km north of the Galway city centre, near where Lough Corrib outflows into the River Corrib. Menlo ...
, Laighléis was a
seanchaí A seanchaí ( or ; plural: ) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian, serving as an oral repository. In Scottish Gaelic the word is (; plural: ). The word is often anglicised as shanachie ( ). The word , which was spelled (plural ...
of local history and of
Fianna ''Fianna'' ( , ; singular ''Fian''; ) were small warrior-hunter bands in Gaelic Ireland during the Iron Age and early Middle Ages. A ''fian'' was made up of freeborn young men, often from the Gaelic nobility of Ireland, "who had left fosterage ...
tales. A selection of his recorded tales, was published in 1977 but contains only a fraction of his output.


See also

* Robin Lawless, died 1260.


References

* ''Seanchas Thomáis Laighléis'', ed.
Tomás de Bhaldraithe Tomás Mac Donnchadha de Bhaldraithe (born Thomas MacDonagh Waldron; 14 December 1916 – 24 April 1996) was an Irish scholar notable for his work on the Irish language, particularly in the field of lexicography. He is best known for his ''Engli ...
, 1977. * ''Social History and Oral Art - Reflections on the Collected Folklore of Menlo, near Galway City'', Cian Marnell, pp. 134–148, ''Journal of the
Galway Archaeological and Historical Society The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society was founded on 21 March 1900. It promotes historical preservation, as well as the study of the archaeology and history of the west of Ireland. As of January 2002, the Society had published 53 cons ...
'', volume 59, 2007. * ''Lawless of Connacht'', Adrian James Martyn, p. 101, ''Journal of the
Genealogical Society of Ireland The Genealogical Society of Ireland () is a voluntary non-governmental organisation promoting the study of genealogy, heraldry, vexillology and social history in Ireland and amongst the Irish diaspora as open access educational leisure pursuits ...
'', vol. 12, 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Laighleis, Tomas Local historians People from County Galway 20th-century Irish historians