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Catch A Falling Star
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Catch A Falling Star

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-12-15
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

The only life Dove McKenna has ever known has been one of the open road. Living with her parents and her brother in a show wagon, travelling from town to town, performing for folk happy enough to pay them for their entertainment, whilst dismissing them as 'gippos' and 'thieves' behind their backs. But it is not until after their mother's death that they settle in one place long enough for Dove to really feel her difference. The McKennas set up camp on a patch of barren land just outside Leeds and Dove and Henry finally get the chance to go to school. And though at St Joseph's they encounter prejudice from pupils, teachers and parents, they find friendships too. Dove begins to dream of acceptance and perhaps even a better home life. For, when sober, their father is an amiable enough soul, but when drunk he can be a monster. And Malachy McKenna is drunk more often than not . . .

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. Ó Cathasaigh has been called “the father of early Irish literary criticism,” with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a breakthrough at a time when they were valued mainly as repositories of grammatical forms, historical data, and mythological debris. All four of the Mythological, Ulster, King, and Finn Cycles are represented here in readings of richness, c...

Toward a Typology of European Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Toward a Typology of European Languages

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

A Handbook of Modern Spoken Breton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

A Handbook of Modern Spoken Breton

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Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-12-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook provides a jargon-free introduction to the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, this Workbook develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners. This user-friendly workbook includes: terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text translation exercises an exercise key.

East of Eden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

East of Eden

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Irish adaptations of four new Romanian plays

Celtica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Celtica

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Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-01-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Intermediate Irish is a jargon-free workbook examining the most commonly used grammatical structures within the Irish language. Focusing on the repeated use of grammatical patterns, the Grammar develops an understanding of the structures presented, making the forms familiar and automatic for learners. This user-friendly workbook includes: terminology introduced and explained with multiple examples exercises in the grammatical forms introduced in the text translation exercises an exercise key.

The Power of Laughter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Power of Laughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Essays on comedy in contemporary Irish theatre

Celtic Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 495

Celtic Linguistics

This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of Celtic studies prepared by leading scholars in the field.