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Diary Of An Irish Countryman
Tomás De Bhaldraithe
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Little St. John's Day. Fair Day in Thomastown. Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul, apostles...Cherries and red and black currants for sale at Crois. A sultry day. Hurling on Fair Green. I was knocked down by a young brat, but it was nothing to be ashamed of, as I brought him down as well. Cow-dung oft knocked a good man. Everything is growing now as fast as ferns. Keeping a personal diary was not a practise among writers of Irish before O'Sullivan's time and contemporary Irish scholars saw no future for the language and consequently wrote in English. ... Read more
Little St. John's Day. Fair Day in Thomastown. Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul, apostles...Cherries and red and black currants for sale at Crois. A sultry day. Hurling on Fair Green. I was knocked down by a young brat, but it was nothing to be ashamed of, as I brought him down as well. Cow-dung oft knocked a good man. Everything is growing now as fast as ferns. Keeping a personal diary was not a practise among writers of Irish before O'Sullivan's time and contemporary Irish scholars saw no future for the language and consequently wrote in English. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
CMD / MERCIER
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781856355476
SKU
V9781856355476
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About Tomás De Bhaldraithe
Tomas de Bhaldraithe was an Irish language scholar and lexicographer. He is best known for his English-Irish Dictionary, published in 1959, which forced a resolution of many long-standing controversies about the literary standard for Irish. In 1960 he was appointed professor of modern Irish language and literature in UCD, where he developed an impressive archive of material on Irish dialects. ... Read more
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