Mar 2, 2015
in 1639
Irish Roman Catholic scholar-priest TheobaldStapleton, alias Teabóid Gallduf or Gallduff published a catechism in Early Modern Irish to promote the use of the Irish language in religious literature. Stapleton attempted to rationalize both the spelling of Irish and the relationship between spelling and pronunciation. The book, published in Brussels, was called Catechismus seu doctrina christiana latino-hibernica or, in Irish, Cathcismus sen Adhon, an Teagasc Críostaí iar na foilsiú a Laidin & a Ngaoilaig.