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Antain Mac Lochlainn, bestselling author of Cuir Gaeilge Air! provides here not just a compendium of superb examples of translation, but an Irish-language book of quotations with a world frame of reference. The range of world literature which has been translated since the language revival is impressive and gems of understanding, wisdom, apoplexy, put-downs from authors from every time and place sit happily alongside each other. An invaluable aid for the journalist, speechwriter, author and anyone who enjoys well-chosen language.
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A critical, conceptual, overview of the prose writings and criticism in Irish as presented in journals and newspapers of the twentieth century. It examines the literary column as a feature of Irish-language prose and journalistic writing of the period, which has proved to be a significant field of...
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A collection of essays on the themes of reading and literacy in Irish, based on the proceedings of a Symposium on Reading in Irish in the Galway Gaeltacht 8-9 March 2002, organised by Róisín Ní Mhianáin, with sponsorship from The Arts Council, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Foras na Gaeilge and...
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An overview of lexicography in Irish from Sanasán Uí Chléirigh (1643) to Ó Dónaill (1978). A short biography of each scholar is accompanied by a description of over a dozen major works linking traditions and languages. This book provides an insight into a neglected but important strand of Irish...
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This critical work examines contemporary writing in Irish against a background of cultural displacement. Within a post-colonial framework, the author considers the impact of colonialism and conquest on literary content and on the critical treatment it has received heretofore. Displacement,...
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A description of phonetics and phonology in the context of the Irish language with the sound system of Irish set out, phoneme by phoneme for the main dialects.PRE-PUBLICATION COPIES AVAILABLE NOW!A key aspect of this project is the website http://www.fuaimeanna.ie which provides a catalog of...
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