English-Irish Dictionary With Terminological Additions and Corrections - Couverture rigide

De Bhaldraithe, Tomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857910362 ISBN 13 : 9781857910360

Editeur : An Gum, 1959

Synopsis

Bhaldraithe, Tomas de. English-Irish Dictionary. Baile Atha Cliath / Dublin, Oifig an tSolathair, 1959. 21.9cm x 14.5cm. XII, 864 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Aim of the dictionary is to provide Irish equivalents for English words and phrases in common use/ primarily based on current usage (of the time) and draws on the older literary language or on neologisms only where the living speech of the Gaeltacht is found wanting/ Tomás de Bhaldraithe (1916–1996) was an Irish language scholar and lexicographer born in Limerick/ He adopted the use of the Irish language version of the name in both Irish and English. He received his second level education at Belvedere College in Dublin/ He is best known for this English-Irish Dictionary, which forced a resolution of many long-standing controversies about the literary standard for Irish/ His stance on standard forms and spellings was supported by Éamon de Valera despite opposition from traditionalists in the Department of Education, and the work is widely seen as an important benchmark in Irish scholarship/ In 1960 he was appointed professor of modern Irish language and literature in University College Dublin, where he developed an impressive archive of material on Irish dialects. Much of the material in this archive was later used as the basis of Niall Ó Dónaill's Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, published in 1978, for which he was consulting editor/ Also during the 1970s, de Bhaldraithe translated the Irish language diary of Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin into English. It was then published by Mercier Press as, The Diary of an Irish Countryman. The language laboratory which he set up in UCD was the first of its kind in any university in Ireland. His interest in seanchas (folklore) led to his publication of Seanchas Thomáis Laighléis in 1977, while his earlier work includes the ground-breaking study of the Cois Fharraige dialect, Gaeilge C..

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: An Gum
• Date d'édition: 1959
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857910362
• ISBN 13: 9781857910360
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible