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Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma ('Irish Alphabet and Catechism') is the first printed book in the Irish language, and also the first in Gaelic type. [1] [2] Meant as a Protestant primer, the book was written by John O'Kearney or Kearney (Irish: Seán Ó Cearnaigh), a treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. [2]
Phrases were spoken by the presenters in both Irish and English, and were also overlaid (in Irish) on a simple static illustration by William Bolger relating to the phrase. It is also the title of a series of 3 books which contain the programme material, including the cartoons, the spoken Irish words and the English and Irish text.
[1] Dublin, Royal Irish Academy 23 P 12 Book of Ballymote: 1384–1406 [1] Dublin, Royal Irish Academy 24 P 26 Book of Fenagh: 16th century Dublin, Royal Irish Academy 23 Q 6 15th–16th century Composite manuscript, five parts. [1] Dublin, Royal Irish Academy 24 P 25 16th century [1] Dublin, Royal Irish Academy B IV 1 1671–1674 Paper ...
An Gúm was founded in 1925 [2] as part of the Department of Education [3] by Ernest Blythe, then Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State.Its purpose was to ensure a supply of textbooks and general books which would be required to implement the policy of reviving the Irish language.
Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...
The Irish Texts Society (Irish: Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge) was founded in 1898 to promote the study of Irish literature. It is a text publication society, issuing annotated editions of texts in Irish with English translations and related commentaries. The organisation was created in London, on 26 April 1898. [1]
He has written early biographies of Charles Stewart Parnell and Lord Randolph Churchill, edited The Oxford History of Ireland (1989), and written Modern Ireland: 1600–1972 (1988) and several books of essays. He collaborated with Fintan Cullen on a National Portrait Gallery exhibition, Conquering England: the Irish in Victorian London. [2]
A Sound Atlas of Irish English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 171 pages + DVD. Hickey, Raymond 2003. Corpus Presenter. Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 292 pages with CD-ROM. Hickey, Raymond 2002. A Source Book for Irish English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, xii ...