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Craic Baby

Craic Baby

Dispatches from a Rising Language

by Darach O'Seaghdha
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/06/2019

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The follow-up to Motherfocloir, exploring the Irish language, both the very old and the very new. Craic Baby hinges on how watching a child learn to communicate changes how you think about language.

From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish 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 Motherfocloir left off and explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective.

While Motherfocloir 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 Motherfocloir, but treated with greater confidence and more depth.

ISBN:
9781788545266
9781788545266
Category:
Humour
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-06-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x25.4mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Darach O'Seaghdha

Darach O'Seaghdha is the author of popular twitter account @theirishfor whose followers include Dara O'Briain, Ed Byrne, Marian Keyes, Colm Toibin, and Gerry Adams.

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