A most important reference.

Probably one of the most important works in Kilkenny Irish is Cín Lae Amhlaoibh.

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This is the full reference.

de Bhaldraithe, Tomás: Cín Lae Amhlaoibh. Leabhair Thaighde. an 18ú hImleabhar. An Clóchomhar Teoranta, Baile Átha Cliath 1970/1973/1976

It has been translated into English.

Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1979) The Diary of an Irish Countryman 1827-1835, translated and edited by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

This is the information from the book itself ...

"I gCallainn i gCo. Chill Choinnigh mar ar chaith sé formhór a shaoil a bhí Amhlaoibh Ó Suilleabháin ina chónaí sna blianta sin (1827-35) a raibh sé ag gabháil don Chin Lae cháiliúil. Chuir Tomás De Bhaldraithe roimhe san eagrán seo scagadh a dhéanamh ar an ábhar agus an chuid sin di ba spéisiúla le léithóir an lae inniu agus ab fhearr a léireodh an t-údar fein is saol a linne a chur in eagar ar mhodh a bheadh soléite ag an léithóir sin.
Ba thréimhse chorraithe ar leith í an tréimhse atá I gceist sa Chinn Lae seo ag Amhlaoibh Ó Suilleabháin, gortaí, Cogadh na nDeachún, obair Uí Chonaill, na cumainn Rúnda. Tá trácht ar an gcuid sin den saol sa Chinn Lae seo – an t-aon chuntas atá againn ó Ghaeilgeoir ar chuid ghníomhach den saol sin é féin. Ach fairis sin tá cuntas chomh beo ar bheatha agus ar nósanna na linne sin nach aon áibhéil a rá’ an té a bhí eolach féin ar stair na mblianta sin, gur dhoimhne is gur bheotha a thuiscint ar mhuintir na linne ach an dialann seo a léamh.

Amhlaoibh O Sullivan lived in Callan Co. Kilkenny most of his life, in the years (1827-35) when he wrote most of his famous diary. Tomas De Bhaldraithe determined to write an edition of the parts that would be specially interesting to today’s readers in a reader friendly format. The times in question were exciting and unsettled with wars, famine and the politics and agitations of Daniel O Connell - the secret societies . There are comments on that aspect of Irish life in the diary, on his own life and the habits and ways of everyday life in Ireland in the 1830s."

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