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'Gan Unsa ar Bith Céille': An Fhearúlacht agus An Bharántúlacht in Dhá amhrán le Seosamh Ó hÉanaí.Béaloideas
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2009)Glactar leis an bharantúlacht mar cheist mhór i gcúrsaí béaloidis sa lá atá inniu ann.4 Tá roinnt mhaith staidéir chomh maith déanta ar chúrsaí inscne i Léann an Bhéaloidis in Éirinn5 agus roinnt bheag a dhíríonn ar an ... -
Gescryfte met letteren na elcxs geval Gegraueert en oic dyveerssche ymagyen: Uses of Code-Switching in Dutch and French
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The green fields of France: Ireland's sporting heroes and the Tour De France
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-07-06)Irish cyclists have been a regular feature of the Tour de France. By examining the lives and feats of the various Irish born riders that have taken part in the world's most famous bike race, this paper demonstrates the ... -
Harry Potter is funny. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices in the Harry Potter books
(NUI Galway, 2009)Harry Potter (HP) has been translated into 45 languages, including Ancient Greek and Latin. It has also been adapted for an American-English audience, with minor but significant changes. Most HP translators have been daunted ... -
‘Harry Potter is funny’. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices into Spanish
(Association for Language Learming, 2012-05-04)In 2003 the highlight of the International Federation of Translators conference was their UNESCO Literary Translators Committee Round Table devoted to the translators of J.K. Rowling’s work as contributors to her popularity. ... -
Heidegger, or the neglect of boundaries
(Copernicus Publications, 2015-05-05)Benedikt Korf’s recent invitation to re-think the deployment of Heidegger’s philosophy within geography in the pages of this journal (Korf, 2014) is both opportune and essential: opportune, because the many and continuing ... -
High Island and the cult of Saint Féichín in Connemara
(Stationery Office, 2014)High Island is one of very many early medieval monastic sites which furnish scarcely a mention in the historical record. It follows, then, that any attempt to sketch out the history of the island must inevitably be tentative ... -
Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ... -
How do you say kélén-kélén in Italian? Migration, landscape and untranslatable food
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-09-19)ABSTRACTThis article discusses translation and migrant (in)visibility in Italy in the context of the so-called migrant and refugee crisis, using food as a key element in the redefinition of the asylum seekersâ cultural ... -
How French is 'French' sport?
(Edinburgh University Press, 2015-12)This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive ... -
How to turn the tide: the policy implications emergent from comparing a ‘post-vernacular FLP’ to a ‘pro-Gaelic FLP’
(Springer Verlag, 2020-02-14)This paper compares the sociolinguistic trajectory of a latent speaker mother to that of a new speaker mother. Drawing on Shandler (TDR 48(1):19 43, 2004), it introduces the term post-vernacular FLP as a means to ... -
“I am coming!” Returning to the Womb in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Michael Haneke’s Film La Pianiste
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2010)Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983), 1 a novel about a piano teacher (Erika Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ... -
The impact of constructing aqueducts on the settlement patterns of Roman Crete
(2004-10)In this paper the Roman aqueducts of Crete will be presented for the purpose of exploring the effects of aqueduct construction on settlement patterns on the island.1 The study will demonstrate the diversity and the extent ... -
Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions
(International Speech Communication Association, 2018-06-13)This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perceptionproduction training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are that an intensive prosodic training improves ... -
Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary
(Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV) and Officinaventuno, 2018)The present work investigates the intonation systems of two varieties of Italian spoken in Liguria, namely in La Spezia and Imperia, with the aims of 1) extending the existing knowledge on the intonation systems of ... -
Introduction: Women and ageing in Irish writing, drama and film
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IRF Off: Connacht's fight for survival and the foundation myth of a rugby Identity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-24)Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht has always been fourth among equals in the pecking order of Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the administration of a ...