Name: From Galway to Brooklyn: Mícheál Ó Lócháin and An Gaodhal
Start: 2024-05-11T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-12T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Rendall Building

$From Galway to Brooklyn: M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 L\u00f3ch\u00e1in and An Gaodhal$

Co-hosted with/Comh-óstach le Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl: Talk on An Gaodhal, the world's first Irish language newspaper
About this Event

The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, is delighted to co-host Deirdre Ní Chonghaile for "From Galway to Brooklyn: Mícheál Ó Lócháin and An Gaodhal, the world's first Irish language newspaper". Please note that the talk will be in English with 'cúpla focail' - a few words of Irish.

An Gaodhal, the world’s first Irish-language newspaper, was established in Brooklyn in 1881 as a monthly bilingual newspaper. It was edited and printed by an Irish immigrant, Michael J. Logan (1836-1899) from Galway, in his own home in Brooklyn. Logan himself came to be regarded as the father of the Irish-language movement in America, being appointed Secretary of the Gaelic League of America shortly before his untimely death in 1899.

Deirdre Ní Chonghaile is a musician, broadcaster, and author of Collecting Music in the Aran Islands (2021). As an independent digital curator, she is supporting the development of the Tomás Ó Máille audio recordings at the University of Galway Library.