An Spórt agus an Réabhlóid in Éirinn Cathal Billings agus Paul Rouse

Imeacht Gaeilge é seo a bheidh á reáchtáil i gcomhpháirtíocht le Cumann Múinteoirí Staire na hÉireann. Beidh deis ag daltaí na Sraithe Sinsearaí bualadh le húdair an leabhair An Spórt agus an Réabhlóid in Éirinn (Royal Irish Academy), Cathal Billings agus Paul Rouse, agus iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar na naisc idir an spórt, an pholaitíocht agus an tsochaí le linn ré réabhlóideach na hÉireann. Gheobhaidh na daltaí léargas ar an ré thábhachtach seo i stair na hÉireann trí phlé, trí na ceisteanna a chuirfidh siad féin agus trí anailís ar fhoinsí stairiúla.

Presented in partnership with the History Teachers’ Association of Ireland, this Irish-language event gives Senior Cycle students the opportunity to meet the authors of An Spórt agus an Réabhlóid in Éirinn, Cathal Billings and Paul Rouse, and explore the connections between sport, politics and society during Ireland’s revolutionary period. Through discussion, student-led questions and the analysis of historical sources, students will gain insights into this important era of Irish history.

This is a schools’ event for Senior Cycle. Booking enquiries to info@dublinbookfestival.com. 

Tá Cathal Billings ina léachtóir le Nua-Ghaeilge sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, mar a bhfuil sé ina stiúrthóir ar Lárionad de Bhaldraithe um Léann na Gaeilge freisin. Is iad na réimsí taighde is mó is spéis leis ná stair shóisialta agus pholaitiúil na gluaiseachta athbheochana, stair an spóirt agus an t-aistriúchán.

Cathal Billings is a lecturer in Modern Irish at University College Dublin and Director of the de Bhaldraithe Centre for Irish Language Scholarship. His main research interests are the social and political history of the Irish language revival, sports history and translation.

Is ollamh le stair sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath, é Paul Rouse. Tá go leor scríofa aige faoi stair an spóirt in Éirinn, lena n-áirítear Sport and Ireland: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015) agus The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland and the Making
of Modern Hurling (Penguin, 2018).

Paul Rouse is a professor of history at University College Dublin. He has written extensively on the history of Irish sport, including Sport and Ireland: A History (Oxford University Press, 2015) and The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland and the Making of Modern Hurling (Penguin, 2018).