. "2934"^^ . . . . . . . . "An Cl\u00E9ireach"@en . . . . . . . "An Cl\u00E9ireach (Gaelic: The Clerk) is a novel by the Irish writer Darach \u00D3 Scola\u00ED, published in 2007 and winner of the 2007 Oireachtas Prize for Literature. It is set during the English Civil War. The protagonist and narrator is a soldier and clerk in dispute with his colonel over a promotion. In north Munster in the year 1650, as the remnants of the royalist army flee from the victorious parliamentarians, a band of poets and soldier-scribes are brought together and, regardless of the proximity of the enemy, spend the night storytelling. In the stories recounted by Cearbhall \u00D3g \u00D3 D\u00E1laigh, Toirdhealbhach Carach \u00D3 Conchubhair and Fear Flatha \u00D3 Gn\u00EDmh, another theme surfaces in the novel, the story of a young man who has been entrusted with the safekeeping of an ancient psalter that has been in his family's keeping for three hundred years, and who has to flee abroad with the book as the Tudor conquest of Ireland is completed by 1601. His hereditary responsibility brings him to the Spanish Netherlands, to Bohemia where he takes part in the Battle of White Mountain as a musketeer in captain Somhairle Mac Domhnaill's company, and from there to the Irish College of St Anthony in Leuven (Louvain), in the company of Brother M\u00EDche\u00E1l \u00D3 Cl\u00E9irigh and Father Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, and finally back to Ireland during the wars of the Irish Catholic Confederation and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. And although the dispute between the narrator and the colonel is brought to a head that night in Ireland, the final strands of the novel are brought together in 1667 as the narrator lives in exile in the Spanish Netherlands. Tadhg Dubh \u00D3 Cr\u00F3in\u00EDn in The Limerick Leader emphasizes the credibility and verisimilitude of the writing that succeeds in convincing the reader that at all times he is in the centre of the vortex no matter where the action takes him.[2] Philip Cummings in L\u00E1 Nua reads the novel as a contemporary fiction, drawing attention to the author's tricks and modern conscious narrative.[3]"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1111947707"^^ . . "\u00DArsc\u00E9al leis an scr\u00EDbhneoir agus dr\u00E1mad\u00F3ir \u00C9ireannach Darach \u00D3 Scola\u00ED is ea An Cl\u00E9ireach. Bhuaigh an t-\u00FArsc\u00E9al Duais an Oireachtais i 2007, agus Gradam U\u00ED Sh\u00FAilleabh\u00E1in i 2008.. D'fhoilsigh Leabhar Breac an leabhar i 2007."@ga . . "14897305"^^ . . "An Cl\u00E9ireach"@ga . . . . "An Cl\u00E9ireach (Gaelic: The Clerk) is a novel by the Irish writer Darach \u00D3 Scola\u00ED, published in 2007 and winner of the 2007 Oireachtas Prize for Literature. It is set during the English Civil War. The protagonist and narrator is a soldier and clerk in dispute with his colonel over a promotion. In north Munster in the year 1650, as the remnants of the royalist army flee from the victorious parliamentarians, a band of poets and soldier-scribes are brought together and, regardless of the proximity of the enemy, spend the night storytelling."@en . . . . . . . . "\u00DArsc\u00E9al leis an scr\u00EDbhneoir agus dr\u00E1mad\u00F3ir \u00C9ireannach Darach \u00D3 Scola\u00ED is ea An Cl\u00E9ireach. Bhuaigh an t-\u00FArsc\u00E9al Duais an Oireachtais i 2007, agus Gradam U\u00ED Sh\u00FAilleabh\u00E1in i 2008.. D'fhoilsigh Leabhar Breac an leabhar i 2007. Saighdi\u00FAir agus cl\u00E9ireach at\u00E1 in earr\u00E1id lena choirn\u00E9al faoi ard\u00FA c\u00E9ime is ea fear inste an sc\u00E9il. I dtuaisceart na Mumhan sa bhliain 1650, agus fu\u00EDleach arm an r\u00ED ag c\u00FAl\u00FA \u00F3 fh\u00F3rsa\u00ED na parlaiminte, castar bu\u00EDon fil\u00ED agus scr\u00EDobhaithe ar a ch\u00E9ile agus, beag beann ar an namhaid at\u00E1 sna s\u00E1la orthu, caitheann siad o\u00EDche ag seanchas cois tine. Sna sc\u00E9alta a ins\u00EDonn Cearbhall \u00D3g \u00D3 D\u00E1laigh, Toirdhealbhach Carrach \u00D3 Conchubhair agus an Fear Flatha \u00D3 Gn\u00EDmh, tagann plota eile chun cinn san \u00FArsc\u00E9al, fear \u00F3g a leagtar mar ch\u00FAram air leabhar beannaithe, at\u00E1 i seilbh a mhuintire le tr\u00ED ch\u00E9ad bliain, a thabhairt sl\u00E1n \u00F3 ionradh Shasana ar an t\u00EDr i 1601. Tugann an c\u00FAram oidhreacht\u00FAil seo as \u00C9irinn go dt\u00ED an \u00CDsilt\u00EDr Sp\u00E1inneach \u00E9, as sin go dt\u00ED an Bh\u00F3ih\u00E9im, \u00E1it a nglacann s\u00E9 p\u00E1irt i gCath an tSl\u00E9ibhe Bh\u00E1in mar mhuscaed\u00F3ir i gcomplacht an chaptaein Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, agus as sin go Col\u00E1iste Naomh Antaine sa Lobh\u00E1in i gcuideachta an Bhr\u00E1thair Miche\u00E1l \u00D3 Cl\u00E9irigh, an Bhr\u00E1thair Eoghan Rua Mac an Bhaird, agus an athar Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, agus ar ais go h\u00C9irinn i l\u00E1r Chogadh na Comhdh\u00E1la agus Chogadh Chromail. C\u00E9 go dtagann an t-aighneas idir an cl\u00E9ireach agus an coirn\u00E9al chun cinn roimh dheireadh na ho\u00EDche seanchais sin in \u00C9irinn, is sa bhliain 1667 a thugtar sn\u00E1tha an sc\u00E9il le ch\u00E9ile agus fear inste an sc\u00E9il ar deora\u00EDocht in Ostend na h\u00CDsilt\u00EDre. Leagann Tadhg Dubh \u00D3 Cr\u00F3in\u00EDn sa Limerick Leader b\u00E9im ar inchreidteacht agus dealraitheacht na scr\u00EDbhneoireachta a mheallann an l\u00E9itheoir isteach sa sc\u00E9al agus a chuireann ina lu\u00ED air go bhfuil s\u00E9 i gcorpl\u00E1r na cuilithe p\u00E9 \u00E1it a ngluaiseann an t-aicsean. Is ar an \u00FArsc\u00E9al mar fhicsean comhaimseartha a chuireann Philip Cummings b\u00E9im in L\u00E1 Nua agus ar chleasa\u00EDocht an \u00FAdair, agus in insint f\u00E9in-chomhfhiosach an sc\u00E9ala\u00ED san \u00FArsc\u00E9al ach go h\u00E1irithe."@ga . . . . . . . .