Ireland's Lexical Memory: Irish words in English Language Texts 1800-2016

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    Abstract

    "Con... I have no speech now". When the boy asked "What else have you got?" the girl said "English". When the boy asserted that surely English was speech she replied: "If it was, surely people would understand it?". This reference to language transfer by a local girl to a servant boy on Canon Peter O'Leary's farm in the nineteenth-century shows how this transfer was a lived experience...
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMemory and Foresight in the Celtic World
    Subtitle of host publicationPerspectives from the late Medieval through Modern Periods
    EditorsLorna G. Barrow, Jonathan M. Wooding
    Place of PublicationSydney
    PublisherSYDNEY UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Chapter5
    Pages103-126
    Number of pages24
    ISBN (Electronic)9781743327142
    ISBN (Print)9781743327159
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Publication series

    NameSydney Series in Celtic Studies
    PublisherSydney University Press
    Volume19

    Keywords

    • Language transfer
    • Irish syntax
    • English language

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