Description
ed. Malachy McKenna
Published: 2001
Format:
Pages: lxxxiii + 424
Reference: F.2.22
ISBN: 1 85500 186 1
Provides information on the Irish of south-east Ulster in use in the early part of the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the orthography of the text and the written Irish of the 17th-19th centuries. A detailed comparison is also made between textual spelling and the Irish spoken in the 1950s in Omeath, Co. Louth.