Ciáran Bairéad, Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 folklore

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 expert, scribe

Scribe

A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing...

 and scholar, fl. 1950s - 1970s.

Bairéad was a native of County Galway

County Galway

County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

 and a graduate of Galway University. He worked with the Irish Folklore Commission

Irish Folklore Commission

The Irish Folklore Commission was set up in 1935 by the Irish Government to study and collect information on the folklore and traditions of Ireland....

 and An Fáinne, the later organisation been established to promote the Irish language, its members bearing its symbol, a small lapel circle. Among his works was the transcriptions of Leabhard na nAmhrán, a dunaire of folksongs by Pádhraic Ó Comáin

Pádhraic Ó Comáin

Pádhraic Ó Comáin was an Irish scribe.Ó Comáin was from Pairce O Cuaman, Creig Mhóir, Leacach . His scribal work consists of folk songs, poetry, Fianna stories, and poems by Antoine Ó Raifteiri, and the brothers Marcus and Peatsaí Ó Callanáin...

. It is especially valuable has the original appears to be misplaced.

He also conducted interviews with locals of the parish concerning accounts of the 1505 Battle of Knockdoe

Battle of Knockdoe

The Battle of Knockdoe was a conflict between the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds, along with their respective Irish allies. On the 19th of August 1504, the Parish of Lackagh was the site of what appears to have been an unusually bloody conflict, arising from a dispute...

, on placenames, faction

Political faction

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 fights and the current use of Irish. Among those interviews were Micheál Ó Síoda

Micheál Ó Síoda

Micheál Ó Síoda was an Irish scribe and folklorist.Ó Síoda was a native of Carnmore, and knowledgeable about the history of the parish of Lackagh-Turloughmore in County Galway. He was an especial authority on the Fair of Turloughmore, and its accompanying faction fights...

 and Séan Ó Loirgneáin

Séan Ó Loirgneáin

Séan Ó Loirgneáin, member of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army, fl. 1914-1951.Ó Loirgneáin was a native of Parkgarve, Claregalway. He participated in the Galway Easter Rising of 1916, serving under Captain Tom Ruane of Grealishtown. He fought at the battle of Carnmore, which was the...

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See also

• Thomás Bairéad
  Thomás Bairéad
  Thomás Bairéad, Bishop of Annaghdown, died c. 1485.Bairéad obtained a papal provision to the see of Annaghdown on 17 April 1458 despite the see been already occupied by Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh, who had held office as both Archbishop of Tuam and bishop of Annaghdown since 1450.Despite crown support,...
  
  
• Tomás Bairéad
  Tomás Bairéad
  Tomás Bairéad was an Irish author and nationalist.-Biography:Bairéad was born near Moycullen, County Galway to a small farmer. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and soon after became an IRA volunteer. His first recorded writings were with The Galway Express in 1918...
  
  
• Bridget Barrett
  Bridget Barrett
  -Overview:Bridget Barrett was the victim in murder case that attracted great notoriety at the time, and was "the subject of the first Coroner's inquest held in Connemara proper and led to two men being charged with wilful murder on the high seas."...
  
  
• Coleman Barrett
  Coleman Barrett
  Coleman Barrett , nicknamed Coley, is an Irish professional boxer who holds the Irish heavyweight title.- Background :Coleman is the cousin of pro light welterweight Francie Barrett...
  
  
• Francie Barrett
• Slim Barrett
  Slim Barrett
  Slim Barrett is an Irish jewellery designer and artist, born in the 1960s.Barrett moved to London from Athenry in 1983 having studied Fine Art in Galway, and has since produced works of contemporary design, with works commissioned by Chanel, Ungaro, Versace, Montana, Lagerfeld, and Galliano.Among...
  
  

Reference

• In Their Own Words: The Parish of Lackagh
  Lackagh
  The parish of Lackagh or Lacagh is located in County Galway in the West of Ireland, approximately half way between Galway city and Tuam . It is bounded by the parishes of Athenry, Abbeyknockmoy, Corofin, Annaghdown and Claregalway...
  
  -Turloughmore
  Turloughmore
  Turloughmore is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The name means "the large lake," a notable feature of the area, together with the Clare River ....
  
   and its People, ed. Liz Blackmore, John Cronin, Donal Ferrie and Brid Higgins, Galway
  Galway
  Galway or City of Galway is a city in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It is the sixth largest and the fastest-growing city in Ireland. It is also the third largest city within the Republic and the only city in the Province of Connacht. Located on the west coast of Ireland, it sits on the...
  
  , 2001. ISBN 0 9539834 04.
• Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700-1900, William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996