Éigse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Éigse write by . This book was released on 2010. Éigse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dialects of Irish
The Dialects of Irish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dialects of Irish write by Raymond Hickey. This book was released on 2011-08-29. The Dialects of Irish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book offers a comprehensive overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Starting with information on the sociolinguistics of modern Irish and on the overall sound system of the language, it then proceeds with a tripartite division of the present-day language into northern, western and southern Irish. It gives specific information on the features of each dialect and considers many sub-divisions, using maps and tables to illustrate clearly what is the subject of discussion. There are several innovations in the book, such as a system of lexical sets which facilitate the description and analysis of variation and change in modern Irish. The data for the book stems from recordings of more than 200 speakers and all the statements made about the structure of Irish are based on native speakers' speech samples. These are supplied online with a software interface which allows users to quickly orient themselves among the varieties of Irish via clickable maps. A number of further issues are focused on in the book, such as the possibility of dialect reconstruction and the use of place-name evidence for determining the earlier distribution of Irish. Additional historical and background information is provided so that scholars and students without any previous knowledge of the language can readily grasp the themes and issues discussed.
Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael
Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael write by Joseph Theodoor Leerssen. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality.
Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature write by Patrick Sims-Williams. This book was released on 2011. Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
Ireland's Immortals
Ireland's Immortals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland's Immortals write by Mark Williams. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Ireland's Immortals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.
