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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Trinity College, ‘proper Irish’ and printing in the Irish language 1602–1685
Description: Recorded April 5, 2022.
A talk by MÃcheál Hoyne (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
In 1563, Queen Elizabeth I made funding available ‘for making of Carecter to printe the New Testament in Irish’. At that point, not a single book had ever been printed in the language. The Irish New Testament finally appeared on 10 February 1602/3. Elizabeth died on 23 March the same year, perhaps without ever having seen the finished product. The project of translating and publishing the New Testament in Irish had languished for years...