Tree Dogs Banshee Fingers And Other Irish Words For Nature

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Thirty-Two Words for Field

Author : Manchán Magan
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 1804184047
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Thirty-Two Words for Field written by Manchán Magan and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic. In Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honoured way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field, to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow). Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words, and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture and language.

Sorry for Your Trouble

Author : Ann Marie Hourihane
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1844885259
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Sorry for Your Trouble written by Ann Marie Hourihane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of death: the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits that tell us so much about who we are. She follows the last weeks of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she attends inquests; she talks to people working to prevent suicide; she follows the team of specialists working to locate the remains of people 'disappeared' by the IRA; and she visits some of Ireland's most contested graves. She also explores the strange and sometimes surprising histories of Irish death practices, from the traditional wake and ritual lamentations to the busy commerce between anatomists and bodysnatchers. And she goes to funerals, of ordinary and extraordinary people all over the country - including that of her own father. 'I had joined a club,' she writes, 'the club of people who have lost someone very close to them.' And then, with her family, she sets about planning a funeral in the middle of a pandemic. Sorry for Your Trouble sheds fresh, wise and witty light on a key pillar of Irish culture: a vast but strangely underexplored subject. Rich, sparkling and eye-opening, it is one of the best books ever written about Irish life. ___________________________ 'A beautiful, insightful reflection on a very, very peculiar country's approach to the oddest experience of them all' RYAN TUBRIDY 'Hugely moving and illuminating. All of life, somehow, is here' TANYA SWEENEY, IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Moving, comforting and funny' BUSINESS POST

Shaking the Family Tree

Author : Buzzy Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439149263
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Buzzy Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ” As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions—that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave her a tantalizing peek into the fascinating (and enormous) community of family-tree huggers and after-hours Alex Haleys. In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven—from the boy who saved his allowance so he could order his great-grandfather’s death certificate to the woman who spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns. Through Jackson’s research she connects with distant relatives, traces her roots back more than 250 years and in the process comes to discover—genetically, historically, and emotionally—the true meaning of “family” for herself.

Jaws and Claws and Things with Wings

Author : Valerie Bloom
Publisher : Collins Educational
ISBN 13 : 9780007465392
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Jaws and Claws and Things with Wings written by Valerie Bloom and published by Collins Educational. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative, clever and often humorous, this beautifully illustrated poetry collection by Valerie Bloom is inspired by the strange and wonderful creatures of the natural world. * Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. * Text type: A poetry book * Curriculum links: Citizenship

What the Abenaki Say about Dogs

Author : Dan Close
Publisher : Shire Press (Northshire Bookstore)
ISBN 13 : 9780970662019
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book What the Abenaki Say about Dogs written by Dan Close and published by Shire Press (Northshire Bookstore). This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry pays homage to the Abenaki of northwestern Vermont--their culture, their history, their place in contemporary society, and their traditional dwelling places.

Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature

Author : Manchán Magan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717192557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature written by Manchán Magan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical illustrated collection of Irish words for the natural world from the author of the bestseller, Thirty-Two Words for Field.

The Presidents' Letters

Author : Flor MacCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848408746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Presidents' Letters written by Flor MacCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously produced homage to the art of the letter, comprising letters to and from the Presidents of Ireland.

The Passenger: Ireland

Author : The Passenger
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609457757
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Passenger: Ireland written by The Passenger and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Ireland—in the series that’s “like a literary vacation” (Publishers Weekly). Ireland is a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic society to a thriving economy free from the influence of the Catholic Church. With the 1998 peace agreements, the conflict between nationalists and unionists seemed, if not resolved, at least dormant. But Brexit—with the ambiguous position it leaves Northern Ireland in—caused old tensions to resurface, with ramifications in politics, society, culture, and sport. Meanwhile, south of the border, epochal transformation has seen a deeply patriarchal, conservative society give space to diversity, the only country in the world to enshrine gay marriage in law through a referendum. And there’s a whole other Ireland abroad, an Irish diaspora that looks to the old country with newfound pride but doesn’t forget the ugliness it fled from. Memory and identity intertwine with the transformations—from globalization to climate change—that are remodeling the Irish landscape, from the coastal communities under threat of disappearing along with the Irish language fishermen use to talk about the sea, inland the peat bogs, until recently important sources of energy and jobs, are being abandoned. Pieces in this collection include: The mass is ended by Catherine Dunne and Caelainn Hogan · The Way Back by Colum McCann · A Trip to Westeros by Mark O’Connell · Plus: life on the margins of two unions and right in the middle of Brexit, making war on each other for thirty years while playing on the same national rugby team, emigrating to the great enemy or transforming the country one referendum at a time, digging peat bogs and building cottages, talking of the sea in Gaelic, and much more . . . “These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.” —The Times Literary Supplement

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

Author : Eoghan Daltun
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1399705288
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book An Irish Atlantic Rainforest written by Eoghan Daltun and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Post Irish Book Award Winner 'An inspiring vision' Manchán Magan 'The stories are absorbing, the writing charismatic and the ideas thought-provoking' Irish Independent On the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. It is the life work of Eoghan Daltun, who had a vision to rewild a 73-acre farm he bought, moving there from Dublin with his family in 2009. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest charts that remarkable journey. Part memoir, part environmental treatise, as a wild forest bursts into life before our eyes, we're invited to consider the burning issues of our time: climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and why our very survival as a species requires that we urgently and radically transform our relationship with nature. Powerfully descriptive, lovingly told, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest presents an enduring picture of the regenerative force of nature, and how one Irishman let it happen.

Listen to the Land Speak

Author : Manchán Magan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717192601
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Listen to the Land Speak written by Manchán Magan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our ancestors lived in a unique and complex society that was inspired by nature and centred upon esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women, all of whom were deeply connected to the land around them. This relationship to the cycles of the natural world – from which we are increasingly dissociated – was the animating force in their lives. With infectious joy and wonder, Manchán Magan roams through Ireland's ancient bogs, rivers, mountains and shorelines, tracing our ancestors' footsteps. He uncovers the myths and lore that have shaped a national identity that is quietly embedded in the land, which has endured ice ages, famine and floods. A magical and reinvigorating exploration into the wisdom that lies beneath us, Listen to the Land Speak casts the world in a new light.