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  • Chapter 16 - Mediation and Translation in Irish Language Literature

  • from Part IV - Practices, Institutions, and Audiences
  • Edited by Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley, Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020, pp 307-326

  • Summary

    More than sixty years after its initial publication in Irish, Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s epic novel Cré na Cille appeared in an English translation: two of them, in fact – each published within a year of the other and by the same publisher, Yale University Press. This chapter takes this unusual circumstance as a stimulus to investigate the wider literary landscape and to give a nuanced overview of pertinent issues and emerging trends in Irish-language literature. Special attention is given to the role of translation, both to and from Irish, in the publication, mediation, and reception of Irish-language literature. Although much is often made of the literary afterlives of Irish-language texts in English, the author contends that these issues are best examined and understood in a multilingual context.