TY - BOOK AU - Ó Séaghdha, Darach TI - Craic baby: dispatches from a rising language SN - 9781788545259 U1 - 491.62 OSE 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Head of Zeus KW - Irish language KW - Humor KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Children KW - Language N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -