Brian Ó Curnáin is an Irish

Dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now considered a sub-fiel ...

. Ó Curnáin is a native of Dublin and spent time in the Connemara Gaeltacht during his youth. He is a researcher in the School of Celtic Studies,

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) () is a statutory independent research institute in Dublin, Ireland. It was established, under the Institute For Advanced Studies Act 1940, by the government of the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Vale ...

, and has published both articles and books. In 2016, he warned that the Gaeltacht would cease to exist within ten years due to "Government strategy ... was in crisis and unsustainable ... Irish speakers in Gaeltacht areas was decreasing and young people’s ability in the language was declining, mainly because of their socialisation through English." In 2018, he discovered a previously unknown Roscommon version of ''Cúirt an Mheán Oíche'' ('The Midnight Court') by the Co. Clare poet,

Brian Merriman Brian Merriman or in Irish Brian Mac Giolla Meidhre (c. 1747 – 27 July 1805) was an 18th-century Irish-language bard, farmer, hedge school teacher, and Irish traditional musician from rural County Clare. Long after his death, Merriman's li ...

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Éamann Ó hOrchaidh Éamann Ó hOrchaidh (floruit, fl. 1817) was an Irish people, Irish scribe and translator. Biography Little is known of Ó hOrchaidh. To date, the only item of his work is a copy of ''Cúirt an Mheán Oíche'' ('the Midnight Court') by the Co. ...

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