Work & Activities

Xoán Manuel Pintos was always very worried about the study and recuperation of Galician language.His great poetic activity started in 1844 with the ballad A entrada do Sr Arsibispo cando vinha do seu desterro de Maón. In 1846, he published the poem Contos da aldea in the newspaper El Circulador. In 1853, he published A Gaita Gallega tocada polo Gaiteiro, ou sea Carta de Cristus para ir deprendendo a ler, escribir e falar ben a lengua gallega, e aínda máis. It was written in Galician language, but there were also pages written in Latin and Castilian language. It was divided into seven parts. He also wrote other twenty-two poems that were published in different newspapers such as El País, El Heraldo Gallego, La Caridad, El Desengaño and so on.Besides, he wrote a Brief Galician Dictionary of about 6.000 words.