Product Description: Based on the much-loved Irish Times column and written in the author's witty style, The Last Word is the final work to come from the pen of this distinguished lexicographer. Some of these words are on the verge of extinction; many of them are dialect words...read more

Product Description: In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised volume From the Viking Word Hoard: A Dictionary of Scandinavian Words in the Languages of Britain and Ireland, author Diarmaid O Muirithe wrote that what he recorded was but a sampling from the Norse word-hoard...read more

Product Description: Diarmaid O'Muirithe's column Words We Use has been a feature of The Irish Times over many years and has formed a critically acclaimed book of the same name. Now Words We Don't Use (much anymore) is a highly entertaining compendium of words which are either on the brink of extinction or have already been deemed obsolete by the great dictionaries...read more

Product Description: At the beginning of the 9th century, the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who peopled the countries abutting the Baltic - the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes, and the Danes - began a great outward movement which was caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature...read more

Product Description: Diarmaid O Muirithe is a lexicographer and etymologist. He explains the origins of words, where they come from, and why the Irish use some of the expressions that they do. His knowledge and erudition in languages, ancient and modern, is enormous...read more

From Aaron to Una, this book provides a gloss on more than four hundred Irish forenames. It helps us learn that the name Art has nothing to do with Arthur; that Brendan is originally of Welsh origin and came to Ireland in a Latinised form; that Cathal is usually translated as Charles, and others. It is useful to choose your child's name.

Product Description: A humorous and informative guide to some of the bizarre word origins and connections of the English language

Slang is the common language of the streets and fields. Ireland, with its interesting mixture of languages and dialects, has a particularly rich store of it. In this book, the author povides a selection of glosses on Irish slang words and phrases.

A short dictionary of words, expressions and terms peculiar to Irish speech.

Product Description: This is a very important contribution to Anglo-Irish lexicography and an excellent source of information on the English of Ireland Dictionaries. Now in paperback, this important work fills a long-felt void in the study of both Irish and English, by providing the first extensive compilation of Hiberno-English words, their meanings and etymologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The tradition of carol singing in County Wexford dates from the seventeenth century and continues as a living tradition today. The repertoire derives from a little book of songs published by Luke Wadding in Ghent in 1684 and from a manuscript collection compiled by Father William Devereux in County Wexford in 1734, which has been copied several times and is still circulated in manuscript copies...read more