The Language of Irish LiteratureMacmillan Education, 1989 - 193 pagina's The Language of Irish Literature is the first book on the market to discuss Irish Literature in terms of the history of, and the linguistic contacts in, the island. It provides a description of the development of the varieties of English in Ireland, concentrating on the input from Irish Gaelic and Scots as well as English. It examines the history of English in Ireland; the nature of Irish and of Irish Englishes; oral traditions: songs and stories; and the three main literary genres: drama, poetry and prose. |
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... suggests that it might have been as high as three million or one third of the population ( 1962 , p . 31 and p . 411 ) . Other historians more conservatively estimate that the series of famines cost one and a half million lives , one ...
... suggests that it might have been as high as three million or one third of the population ( 1962 , p . 31 and p . 411 ) . Other historians more conservatively estimate that the series of famines cost one and a half million lives , one ...
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... suggests an influence from HE is George Gray's use of foregrounding to highlight ' joking ' . TWENTIETH - CENTURY PROSE In 1924 , Virginia Woolf gave a lecture in which she claimed : On or about December 1910 human nature changed ...
... suggests an influence from HE is George Gray's use of foregrounding to highlight ' joking ' . TWENTIETH - CENTURY PROSE In 1924 , Virginia Woolf gave a lecture in which she claimed : On or about December 1910 human nature changed ...
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... suggests the interdependence of story and moral , comprehends the proverb which Walter Benjamin ( 1973 , p . 108 ) described as ' an ideogram of a story . A proverb ... is a ruin which stands on the site of an old story and in which a ...
... suggests the interdependence of story and moral , comprehends the proverb which Walter Benjamin ( 1973 , p . 108 ) described as ' an ideogram of a story . A proverb ... is a ruin which stands on the site of an old story and in which a ...
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Introduction to Irish Literature | 1 |
The History of Irish English | 10 |
Irish and Irish Englishes | 18 |
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