Darach Ó Séaghdha

Darach Ó Séaghdha is an Irish writer and Irish language activist. He is the author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language (Head of Zeus, 2017), which won Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the 2017 Irish Book Awards. He runs the popular Irish-language-trivia Twitter account The Irish For.[1] He is also the main host of the podcast Motherfoclóir,[2] part of the Headstuff Podcast Network.[3]

Ó Séaghdha's father and mother used to speak Irish together but spoke English to their children. When Ó Séaghdha's father became very ill, Ó Séaghdha started to learn Irish and used Twitter to share interesting Irish phrases and words he came across.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Irish For 🥃✒ (@theirishfor) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  2. ↑ "Motherfoclóir Archives - Headstuff". Headstuff. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  3. ↑ "Home - Headstuff". Headstuff. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  4. ↑ "Darach Ó Séaghdha's complicated history with Gaeilge". 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  5. ↑ Murray, Sean. "'Irish is a dead language? Judging by your punctuation, English isn't far off either'". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 2018-04-20.



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