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The nation in Its labyrinth: An introduction to contemporary Spain since 1898
(Pressbooks, 2019)This is guide specifically written for first year undergraduates taking Spanish, but it will be useful to many other readers, whether university students or the public in general. It aims at navigating the recent ... -
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ... -
National identity and local ethnicity: the case of the Gaelic League's Oireachtas sean-nós singing competitions
A discussion of traditional singing as a cultural phenomenon in contemporary Ireland, together with a brief historical overview. -
Neo-Assyrian relief in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities, Trinity College Dublin; a case study in artefact acquisition.
(2012)The focus of this paper is a neo-Assyrian relief discovered in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities at Trinity College Dublin (hereafter the Weingreen Museum). The shallow relief depicts a pictorial vignette of a ... -
A new citation from a work of Columbanus in BnF lat. 6400b
(Brepols, 2014)The author argues that a section of the newly-discovered eighth-century Irish computistica in Paris, BnF, lat. 6400b may contain a citation from a (lost?) work of Columbanus. -
New speakers of Irish and identities
(Routledge, 2020-03-03)This chapter examines the links between the Irish language and identity in the discourses of new speakers. Despite the strong historical association of Irish with national ethnocultural identity, the chapter identifies a ... -
New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ... -
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations
(De Gruyter, 2015-05-28)This paper examines the experiences and motivations of 'new speakers' of Irish in the United States. 'New speakers' of Irish refer to those whose first language is not Irish but who use the language regularly and fluently. ... -
‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life
(Routledge, 2021-07-19)This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be ... -
Nicolas Sarkozy: Performing the French presidency
(Intellect, 2021-03-01)A presidential election can be viewed as a national drama in which a candidate casts herself/himself as a courageous protagonist who seeks to become a collective symbol that embodies the best qualities of the nation. Drawing ... -
Nicole Gilles and literate society
(Peter Lang, 2019-02-05)Nicole Gilles was active in the literate society of Paris in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in a number of ways: as a reader and patron of books, as a publisher and as a writer whose work may have circulated ... -
Novels of ripening: The maturation of the bildungsroman
(Bloomsbury, 2023-06-29)This chapter explores how the Bildungsroman, originally associated with young protagonists’ coming-of-age, has been revised in recent fiction to incorporate the continuing development and growth of characters well ... -
Okra in translation: Asylum seekers, food, and integration
(John Benjamins, 2021-06-18)This article explores the theme of food translation, based on research conducted in Italy in 2018 with a group of asylum seekers from different West African countries. It concentrates on a community gardening project ... -
Old names for the River Suck and associated sites
(Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 2020)This paper examines the evidence indicating that the names Bré and Dubainn Bré (and variants thereof) may be regarded as older, alternative names for the river Suck. It also considers textual references to some other ... -
On the meaning of 'baile (buile)', and the interpretation of the poem beginning 'Rop tú mo baile'
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Op weg naar Broxeele: the production of shared spaces
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Open educational resources for online language teacher training: conceptual framework and practical implementation
(AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2022)This paper discusses a conceptual framework for the design of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for online language teacher training including an example of practical implementation. The authors identify in the principles ... -
The origins of the preterite of the Old Irish copula and substantive verb: an overview and new ideas
(University of Wales Press, 2012-12)As is well known, Old Irish presented a morphological and functional distinction between the copula and the so-called 'substantive verb'. While in the present indicative the former is based on the PIE root *h1es- and the ...