Alan Titley
Genres: Columnist, Playwright, Editor, Poet, Childrens' author, Historian, Novelist
Is scoláire, colúnaí le The Irish Times, úrscéalaí, gearrscéalaí, fabhalscéalaí, file, staraí liteartha, craoltóir agus drámadóir é Alan Titley. Ó 1981 i leith, bhí sé i gceannas ar Roinn na Gaeilge i gColáiste Phádraig, Droim Conrach go dtí gur ceapadh é ina Ollamh le Nua-Ghaeilge i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh in 2006. Taibhríodh na drámaí Tagann Godot (An Clóchomhar, 1991) in Amharclann na Péacóige in 1990 agus taibhríodh An Ghráin agus an Ghruaim in Amharclann Samuel Beckett in 1999. Chraol RTÉ Radio agus BBC Radio drámaí dá chuid freisin. Tá iliomad duaiseanna buaite aige, ina measc Gradam Bisto 2004 dá úrscéal, Amach (An Gúm, 2004). Scríobh sé agus chuir sé an tsraith teilifíse, Scéal na Gaeilge, i láthair do TG4 sa bhliain 2012. D’fhoilsigh An Gúm a úrscéal Gluaiseacht in 2009 — scéal bunaithe ar inimircigh agus inimirce. Le blianta beaga anuas foilsíodh freisin Scríbhneoirí faoi Chaibidil (Cois Life, 2010), sraith alt ar údair mhóra liteartha na Gaeilge, atá bunaithe ar an tsraith clár den teideal céanna a craoladh ar RTÉ; Nailing Theses: selected essays (Lagan Press, 2011); agus Smuf (An Gúm, 2012), úrscéal do dhaoine óga. D’fhoilsigh sé leabhar filíochta Rabhadh Dánta (Coiscéim, 2013), agus An Bhean Feasa (Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2014) arb úrscéal agus an dán is faide i nualitríocht na Gaeilge é in éineacht.
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, including Russian, Italian, French, Croatian, Polish, Arabic, Romanian, English and Gaelic.