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Bilingual publication.
Insights from current research in the sciences are applied to the situation of the Irish language in this challenging new bilingual work by one of its foremost and thought-provoking authors. New issues are identified for debate, an intellectual challenge to the guardians of linguistic forms which he argues convincingly are more applicable to another era.
Maolmhaodhóg Ó Ruairc has published several titles in Irish on linguistic issues. He has worked as a translator in Brussels for many years.
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