Languages of Ireland / Michael Cronin & Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cronin, Michael, 1960-

Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and history.

Ireland--Languages.

Ireland.

Language and languages.

Language and history--Ireland.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Strangers to ourselves

the languages of Ireland / Michael Cronin, Cormac O Cuilleanain 9

Section 1 Languages in Ireland

1 Language interface in early Irish culture / Maria Tymoczko 25

2 The Latin language in early medieval Ireland / Jean-Michel Picard 44

3 The French language in medieval Ireland / Jean-Michel Picard 57

4 Translating Irelands: the English language in the Irish context / Terence Dolan 78

5 The eagle that never landed: uses and abuses of the German language in Ireland / Joachim Fischer 93

6 The historical presence of Ulster-Scots in Ireland / Philip Robinson 112

7 Irish

one of the languages of the world / Liam Mac Coil 127

8 Sign language interpreters: agents of social change in Ireland / Lorraine Leeson 148

Section 2 Ireland's Languages and Cultural Crossover

9 Irish appropriation of Sophocles' Antigone and Philoctetes / Brian Arkins 167

10 French connections: twentieth-century Irish translations of French poets / Kathleen Shields 179

11 Memetics, metatranslation and cultural memory: the literary Imaginaires of Irish identity / Angela Ryan 195

12 Spaces between Irish worlds: travellers, translators and the new accelerators / Michael Cronin 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

185182698X

OCLC:

51527739