Ina leabhar nua, ‘Paidir do Bhéal Feirste’, tugann Máirtín Ó Muilleoir cur síos beoga dúinn ar a bhliain chorrach mar ardmhéara ar Bhéal Feirste.

Tugann an leabhar léargas pearsanta dúinn ar na dúshláin uile a bhí roimhe agus é ag iarraidh an tsíocháin a chothú agus an t-athmhuintearas a chur chun cinn mar chéad saoránach ar an chathair.

Ina chuid focal féin, cuireann sé síos ar an ionsaí i bPáirc Woodvale i mí Lúnasa 2013 inar gortaíodh naonúr póilín agus ar an chás cúirte a lean. Tugann sé tuairisc eisiach ar an comhráití a d’éascaigh an bealach dó le buaileadh le Banríon na Breataine i gCaisleán Windsor agus le bheith ar an chéad ardmhéara a d’fhreastail ar searmanas ag an Centotaph i mBéal Feirste ar 11 Samhain.

Mar ardmhéara, thaisteal sé ní ba mhó na aon ardmhéara a tháinig roimhe — 55,000 míle san iomlán — agus sheol sé ní ba mhó tvuíteanna ná aon ionadaí eile tofa sa tír — 25,000 — agus é ag iarraidh an chathair cois cuain a thiomáint go dtí an taobh gheal den tsráid.

Thuill sé moladh ó gach taobh gur chruthaigh sé múnla nua do phost an ardmhéara le ceapadh 10 séiplíneach agus le ceapadh na chéad craobhfhile.

Seolfaidh an scríbhneoir Alan Titley Paidir do Bhéal Feirste sa Siopa Leabhar, Sráid Fhearchair, Baile Átha Cliath, ar 1in Dé Sathairn 20 Nollaig. Coiscéim a d’fhoilsigh.

In his new book, ‘Paidir do Bhéal Feirste’, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir gives an access-all-areas look at his year as Belfast Lord Mayor.

Bookended by the loyalist attack in Woodvale Park in August 2013 — in which nine police officers were injured — and the subsequent court case, the 200-page memoir charts his year-long mayoral adventure.

Complete with pictures by award-winning photographer Dónal McCann and sprinkled with Tweets selected from some 25,000 sent during his year in office, the Irish language book is published by Coiscéim and will be launchd in Dublin on Saturday (Siopa Leabhar, Harcourt Street, 1pm).

In a year which forged a new template for the post of first citizen, the Sinn Féin man appointed 10 chaplains and a the city’s first poet laureate, and became the first republican Lord Mayor to meet the Queen and attend an armistice day ceremony at the cenotaph.