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Ghost Ship or Not, How to Say ‘Rats’ in Irish Posted by róislín on Jan 23, 2014
(le Róislín) Cannibal rats? A ghost ship? An Irish island? How dramatic is that? You’ve probably read the basic news scoop by now. The cruise ship Lyubov Orlova, built in 1976 in the former Yugoslavia, is allegedly adrift in the North Atlantic, with no crew. The only living (if that) inhabitants on board are believed…
Seamus Heaney and the Irish Language (Cuid a Trí as Trí) Posted by róislín on Sep 22, 2013
(le Róislín) The previous two blogs in this “mionsraith” discussed Seamus Heaney’s use of Irish in writing poetry in English. We discussed the Irish titles of some of his poems (e.g. “Aisling,” “Maighdean Mara“) and the implied Irish in “The Backward Look,” where he incorporates folk expressions for “snipe” into the body of a poem…