{"product_id":"de-leim-thar-teorainn-paperback","title":"De Léim thar Teorainn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSéamas Ócatháin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying,\" writes Séamas Ó Catháin (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection). Born in Drumquin, County Tyrone, to a family of Catholic business people and farmers, he grew up \"a stone's throw\" from the border that separates Donegal in the Republic from the six counties of Northern Ireland - - \"a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives.\" - \"Is iomaí sin áit sa domhan a bhfuil cúrsa na slat thar teorainn rite agam ach dheamhan dath níos measa a chonaic mé riamh ná an teorainn a bhí sa bhaile againn,\" a scríobhann Séamas Ó Catháin (Ollamh emeritus de chuid Choláiste Ollscoile Bhaile Átha Cliath agus Iar-Stiurthóir Chnuasach Bhealoideas Eireann) faoin teorainn in Éirinn - \"mar ar ghnách leis na ceannairí beaga custam a bheith ina dtiarnaí uirthi agus orainne\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\" \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e De Léim thar Teorainn [\"Jumping the Border\"]\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging account of his experience - as a child and as a young man - in three distinctive cultures, now radically changed. He describes the Tyrone of the 1940s and 1950s where Protestant and Catholic neighbours shared their lives at a personal level, but where institutions were divisive. His father's prosperous business was ruined because of a political event he supported. The schools and the curriculum were dividers of the two communities. The border was a nuisance to everyone. As a post-graduate student in the 1960s, he took up residence in the Donegal Gaeltacht of \u003cem\u003e\"Na Cruacha\"\u003c\/em\u003e, where \"real old Irish\" was still spoken. He did a study of the area's place names, and recorded the distinctive music and speech of \u003cem\u003e\"Na Cruacha\"\u003c\/em\u003e. Shortly afterwards his research took him to the far north of Europe, to Sápmi (known as Lapland), a cultural rather than a political territory which spreads over four countries, and where he immersed himself in the culture and language of the Sami people at a time when their native language and customs were under threat and belittled. Séamas's many international distinctions and awards include: Knight (First Class) of the Order of the Lion of Finland; the Dag Strömbäck Prize of the Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden; and the Ruth Michaela-Jena Ratcliff Prize, Edinburgh. He is an honorary member of the Finnish Kalevala Society; a member of the Folklore Fellows of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki; and a sometime member of the Advisory Board of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48343389733113,"sku":"9781908420282","price":28.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/gT_0Nly1Tx9781908420282.webp?v=1777697966","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/de-leim-thar-teorainn-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}