Irish

Luxuriating in Language

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

I had the good fortune to hear the outstanding Irish writers John Banville and Colum McCann a few days ago, when they did a reading together at New York’s 92nd Street Y. Banville won the Man Booker prize in 2005 for The Sea and McCann won last year’s National Book Award for Let The Great […]

Linguist Jaye Padgett wearing the head frame used to stabilize an ultrasound camera. Padgett and colleagues at UC-Santa Cruz and University College Dublin are documenting Irish consonant formation.

It’s easier to get people to stop speaking a language than to take it up again. Just ask the Irish.

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