Garry Bannister

Garry Bannister travelled to Russia at the end of the 1970s where he helped to establish the first department of Modern Irish at Moscow State University. He has devoted many years to studying the writings of Tomás Ó Criomhthain, the literary works of Pádraig Ó Conaire and to the development of modern Irish literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Amongst his many publications, he has to his name a number of popular dictionaries, most recently the first mini-thesaurus for Irish speakers, Teasáras Gearr Gaeilge Béarla and the now very popular Irish learner's dictionary Foclóir Foghlaimeara. In 2008, New Island published his dictionary of English-Irish slang, Kiss My....