Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language

by Darach Ó Séaghdha

Book Overview

From the author of the bestselling Motherfocl ir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year.
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788545265
• ISBN13: 9781788545266
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"