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Theobald Stapleton, alias Teabóid Gallduf or Gallduff (1589 – 13 September 1647), was an Irish Roman Catholic priest born in County Tipperary,〔Ryan-Hackett, The Stapletons of Drom, alias Font-Forte, Co. Tipperary (1995).〕 Ireland. Little is known of his career, except that he was a priest living in Flanders. In 1639, he published a catechism in Early Modern Irish to promote the use of the language in religious literature. It was the first Roman Catholic book in which the Irish language was printed in antiqua type. The book, published in Brussels, was called ラテン語:''Catechismus seu doctrina christiana latino-hibernica'' or, in Irish, . Stapleton's catechism was also the first notable attempt to simplify Irish spelling. He advocated and used a simplified spelling of Irish to encourage literacy among less educated people. In Stapleton's system, silent letters in certain words were replaced, e.g., the ''idhe'' in the word ("sitting") was replaced by ''í'' in (as in modern Irish). He also brought the spelling closer to the pronunciation, e.g. by replacing ''thbh'' as in ("terror") by ''f'', giving ''uafás'' as in modern Irish. However, only authors of devotional literature adopted his spelling system; the classical spelling system remained in place until the 20th century. In September 1647, in the Sack of Cashel, during the Irish Confederate Wars Stapleton was captured in the cathedral at Cashel by Parliamentarian soldiers under the command of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, and put to death on the spot. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theobald Stapleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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