Hi,

I'm looking for recommendations for some good collections of folklore to read in the Connacht dialect.

Míle buíochas,

Oscar

Dia dhuit a chara,
here are a few suggestions to get you started - these are collections of traditional stories that you can get from CIC.ie -

Bróga Páipéir agus Stocaí Bainne Ramhair - collected from Micheál Breathnach

An Chaora Ghlas agus scéalta as Seanadh Farracháin

Ón tSeanam Anall - Scéalta Mhící Bháin Uí Bheim

The other obvious source is from the School's Collection on Dúchas.ie where you can go down the list of counties and choose which one you want.

Is mise le meas
Franc

Thanks a million for this

Here are a few more - but I must warn you that quite often they're difficult to get hold of, unless of course you live in Ireland and can go along to the library.

Eochair Mac Rí in Éirinn - by Éamon a Búrc ISBN 978 0 9064 2608 1 - Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann 1982

Éamon a Búrc : Scéalta - Peadar Ó Ceannabháin a chuir in eagar - An Clóchamar Téoranta 1983

Seoda ár Sinsear - by Eddie Bheairtle Ó Conghaile ISBN 978 1 9024 2013 4 - Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1999

Scéalta Mháirtín Neile - ISBN 978 0 906426 17 0 - Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann 1994
(Bailiúchán Scéalta ó Árainn - Holger Pedersen a thóg síos sa bhliain 1895 - Ole Munch-Pedersen a chóirigh agus a chuir in eagar)

There's also Seanchas Jimmí Chearra: Cois Fharraige, which has had *very* little standardization done to it and so is a great grasp of the dialect itself (I wish more would be published without standardization).

You could also check out my blog, where I transcribe and write dialectal notes on stories from the IFC's Main Manuscript Collection (mainly those from Éamonn a' Búrc currently). Mac Coisdealbha, who collected in Iorrus Aithneach, transcribed as he heard the words, so lots of good intuition into the dialect as opposed to the Caighdeán: gaeilgechonamara.com/

Thanks for the suggestion. That should be very useful as I've already studied 'Learning Irish' by Mícheál Ó Siadhail. You're dead right about standardisation.

I've just been browsing your blog and finding it extremely interesting. I will surely be using it as a resource in future.

Seanchas Jimmí Chearra - I have that book too. I agree about standardisation, the real language will be lost if it's not written as it's spoken. There aren't enough audio recordings with the older generation, now sadly too late for a lot of them. As my generation, and younger, anybody who has gone to school really, have lost a lot of the "blas". I get it mixed up in my head a lot of the time.

gaeilgechonamara.com - Brilliant site. I hadn't seen it before. And I notice we're friends on Facebook and I didn't even know it was you.