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Physical Desc
146 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Irish language, also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaelige, is spoken today by approximately a million people worldwide. It is also the basis of the Irish literary tradition, which is the oldest in Europe after Greek and Latin. Whether you want to connect to your Irish heritage or carry on a conversation when visiting the Gaeltachtai (small rural pockets in Ireland where Irish is the first language spoken), Beginners Irish with Online Audio is the...
3) Irish
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5 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's guide (14 pages).
Language
English
Description
Offers a whole language approach to learning to speak Irish, containing ten thirty-minute lessons which teach speaking, reading, and audio skills.
4) The colony
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376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it"--
It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the...
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xiii, 223 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"National Review senior writer Michael Brendan Dougherty delivers a mediation on belonging, fatherhood, and nationalism, through a series of letters to his estranged Irish father. The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up soon after he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He loved his mother but longed for his father, who only occasionally returned from Ireland for visits. He was happy...
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