Craic baby : dispatches from a rising language / Darach O'Séaghdha.

By:

Ó Séaghdha, Darach

Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2018Description: xii, 146 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781788545259

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 491.62 OSE

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Loanable Book	Library	Irish Collection	491.62 OSE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000412354

"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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