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  -