Craic baby : dispatches from a rising language / Darach O'Séaghdha.
By: Ó Séaghdha, Darach
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Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2018Description: xii, 146 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781788545259.Subject(s): Irish language | Irish language -- Humor | Fathers and daughters | Children -- LanguageDDC classification: 491.62 OSE | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Loanable Book | Library | Irish Collection | 491.62 OSE (Browse shelf) | Available | 000412354 |
Introduction -- Normal people -- New words -- Multilingual children -- Language, neologisms and power -- Hiberno-English -- Computer languages and Irish -- Old Irish, older Irish and Sengoídelc -- Fantasy Island -- Brehon law, Bunreacht Law -- Conclusion.
"What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of syllables, or something more profound? How do new words enter a language, and what is the relationship between that strange dialect called Hiberno-English and its parent language? [Thsi book] ... explorss the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective."--Book jacket.
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