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Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language

By Darach O'S aghdha
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By Darach O'S aghdha
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From the author of the bestselling Motherfoclóir, 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 language?

Craic Baby picks up exactly where Motherfoclóir left off and explore...

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HistoryPhilosophyEuropean HistoryLinguistics & SemioticsIrish HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous Irish HistoryHistorical (Diachronic) Linguistics