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About Garry Bannister

Faoin Údar  Fuair an Dr GARRY BANNISTER a oideachas i gColáiste na Tríonóide i mBaile Átha Cliath áit a ndearnadh sé staidéar ar an Ghaeilge agus an Rúisis. Chuaigh sé ar scoláireacht go Moscó i 1977. Ba ansin a bhain sé céim amach i dteanga agus i nualitríocht na Rúisise agus PhD sa teangeolaíocht chomparáideach.  I dtosach na n-ochtóidí chuir sé an chéad Roinn le Nua-Ghaeilge ar bun i StátOllscoil Mhoscó. Ar fhilleadh dó abhaile bhí sé ina cheannaire ar feadh tríocha bliain ar Roinn na Gaeilge i gColáiste Choilm Bhaile Átha Cliath. Agus ó am go chéile bhí sé ina léachtóir ar cuairt i gColáiste Phádraig Droim Conrach áit inar thug sé léachtaí ar Nualitríocht na Gaeilge. Chomhoibrigh sé fosta in aistriúcháin ar thaiscí liteartha na Gaeilge le David Sowby (An tOileánach) Alan Titley (Cré na Cille) Gabriel Rosenstock (Comhrá le Lí Hé). Tá sé ina údar ar Fhoclóir an Fhoghlaimeora Labhair Rúisis Liom Essential Irish agus ar thrí eagrán níos luaithe den teasáras nua breisithe seo. Le déanaí tháinig leabhair eile uaidh amhail an fhoinse thagartha úd ar a bhfuil buanghnaoi an phobail Proverbs in Irish Whats That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook agus aistriúcháin le tráchtaireachtaí ar na Cóáin chlasaiceacha Zen A Path Home Conair Siar na leabhair uile sin foilsithe ag New Island.   About the Author Dr GARRY BANNISTER was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he studied Irish and Russian. On a scholarship to Moscow in 1977 he received a degree in Russian language and literature and also completed a PhD in comparative linguistics. He set up the first Department of Modern Irish at Moscow State University in the early 1980s. Upon his return to Ireland he taught at St Columbas College in Dublin where he was head of the Irish Department for nearly thirty years. He has also been a visiting lecturer on modern Irish literature at St Patricks College Drumcondra. He has worked on the translations of Irish literary classics such as An tOileánach with David Sowby Cré na Cille with Alan Titley and Comhrá le Lí Hé with Gabriel Rosenstock. He is the author of Foclóir an Fhoghlaimeora Labhair Rúisis Liom Essential Irish and three earlier editions of his Irish-English Thesaurus. More recently his work includes the perennially popular Proverbs in Irish Whats That as Gaeilge? An English-Irish Phrasebook and the first comprehensive translation of classical Zen koans in English and Irish A Path Home Conair Siar all published by New Island.