Then Ó Séaghdha

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Darach Ó Séaghdha is an Irish writer and podcaster.

Darach Ó Séaghdha grew up in Rathfarnham as the son of a linguist . The parents of Ó Séaghdha spoke Irish among themselves, but English with their children. When his father fell ill, Ó Séaghdha began to dig deeper into Irish, learning the language and sharing interesting Irish phrases and expressions on Twitter.

He is the author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language (Head of Zeus, 2017), which won the Irish Book Award in the Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year category in 2017 .

Ó Séaghdha is married and has one daughter.

Works

  • Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language . Head of Zeus, London 2017
  • Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language . Head of Zeus, London 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darach Ó Séaghdha's complicated history with Gaeilge . August 28, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Sean Murray: 'Irish is a dead language? Judging by your punctuation, English isn't far off either ' (en) . In: TheJournal.ie . 
  3. ↑ MOTHERFOCLÓIR , Irish Book Award, accessed February 11, 2019
  4. ↑ Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter , The Irish Times, October 20, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ó Séaghdha, Darach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer and podcaster
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century