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    Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
    Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
    Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
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    Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language

    By Darach O'Seaghdha

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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 explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective. While Motherfoclóir was steeped in memory and a father-son relationship, Craic Baby hinges on the beginnings of a father-daughter relationship, and how watching a child learn to communicate changes how you think about language.

    Craic Baby will share more Irish words and issues connected to the language, in the same style as Motherfoclóir, but treated with greater confidence and more depth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 6, 2018
    ISBN9781788545273
    Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language
    Author

    Darach O'Seaghdha

    Darach O'Séaghdha is the author of popular twitter account @theirishfor. He lives just outside Dublin, where he works as a civil servant during the day and explores language at night and in the early morning.

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      It would have helped if I had known some Irish but nevertheless I found this quick-moving book quite accessible and interesting, in particular the section on Hiberno English and the way words are used in English spoken in Ireland, for instance 'craic' which started off with the English spelling 'crack' before turning inauthentically into the current Irish spelling. Words like 'Eejit', 'Jaysus', 'Grand', 'Lads' and others recovered, 'grand' having a less emphatic meaning in Irish English. A lady sitting beside us on a DART train near Dublin used the word 'grand' or phrase 'that's grand' about a dozen times in five minutes.

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