Alan titley biography

Alan Titley MRIA (born 28 June 1947, Irish: An Titlíoch) is an Irish-language novelist, translator, playwright and professor.
Alan Titley was born in 1947 in Cork City.
Alan Titley is a scholar, novelist, short story writer, poet, broadcaster and dramatist.

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Books by Alan Titley

An hobad : nó anonn agus ar ais arís
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4.29 avg rating — 4,250,203 ratings — published 1937 — 1420 editions

The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille
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3.63 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 1949 — 30 editions

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged
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4.12 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 1929 — 33 editions

The Dregs of the Day
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3.54 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions

Gluaiseacht
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3.23 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions

The Táin: The Great Irish Battle Epic
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3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions

A Pocket History of Gaelic Culture
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

Amach
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3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing: Home Place v. 3, No. 2
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006

Sprachbund, Issue 1
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4.50 avg rating &m

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Alan Titley

Alan Titley is the author of seven novels, four collections of stories, many plays and some poetry, including An Bhean Feasa the longest poem in modern Irish literature. He has written documentary films for television, and presented his own Scéal na Gaeilge (‘The Story of Irish’) on TG4. He is a scholar who has written widely on Irish, Anglo-Irish and Scottish literature, and his An tÚrscéal Gaeilge is the final word on the Irish novel. His translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s classic novel was published as The Dirty Dust (Yale/CIC 2015). He was Head of the Irish Department in St Patrick’s College (NUI and DCU) and, more recently, Professor of Modern Irish in University College Cork, and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His stories and plays have earned many awards including The Butler Prize of the Irish American Cultural Institute, The Pater Prize for International Drama, The Stewart Parker Award for Drama from the BBC, and the Éilís Dillon Award for Children’s Literature. A number of these stories and plays have been translated into other languages, inc

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Alan Titley

Writer, translator and professor working primarily in Irish

Alan TitleyMRIA (born 28 June 1947, Irish: An Titlíoch) is an Irish-language novelist, translator, playwright and professor.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] He also wrote columns under the name Crobhingne.^[6]

Early life

Titley was born in Cork and educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra and University College Dublin.^[7]

Career

He taught in Nigeria during the Biafra War. Later he was head of the Irish Department in Drumcondra from 1981. In 2003 he began to write a column in The Irish Times. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Modern Irish in University College Cork. He retired in 2011. Titley was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.^[8]^[9] Awards won include The Butler Prize of the Irish American Cultural Institute, The Pater Prize for International Drama, The Stewart Parker Award for Drama from the BBC, and the Éilís Dillon Award for Children's Literature.^[10]