An Irish Literary Dictionary & Glossary - Hardcover

Wall, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861404424 ISBN 13: 9780861404421

Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Wall is at University of Calgary.

Review

"Text is a close fit with entries (words and phrases) moving beyond literature from archaeology to zoology and every field of Irish studies, providing definitions and OED-like citations with coded attributions (you look up Heaney, SA, and find of course Sweeney Astray). From a Baby Power to a shoneen to a townie, all are seriously and wittily glossed making this a browser's delight, with very conscientious cross-referencing."--Books Ireland

Edition details

• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0861404424
• ISBN 13: 9780861404421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 374