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An Irish literary dictionary and glossary / Richard Wall.
LIBRA PE2406 .W36 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wall, Richard, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Ireland--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- English language.
- English language--Foreign words and phrases--Irish--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Dialect literature, English--Irish authors--Dictionaries.
- Dialect literature, English.
- English literature--Irish authors--Dictionaries.
- English literature.
- English language--Ireland--Terms and phrases.
- English literature--Irish authors.
- Dialect literature, English--Irish authors.
- English language--Foreign words and phrases--Irish.
- English language--Dialects.
- Ireland--In literature--Dictionaries.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Physical Description:
- 374 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire : C. Smythe, 2001.
- Summary:
- This is the first reference work to provide the general reader, as well as the specialist, with direct and easy access to the English language as it has been used in Irish literature. Quotations from writers ranging from AE to Zozimus, including Nobel laureates Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, and Heaney, are used to illustrate vocabulary and idioms. From archaeology ("crannog") to zoology ("graunogue"), almost every aspect of Ireland and Irish life over the past 400 years is reflected in this volume.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-374).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0861404424
- OCLC:
- 47723578
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