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Susan O'Dea Boland's Blog – November 2015 Archive (2)
Gaeilge, And 'This Business of Living'
Language is a window into the soul.
This saying helps to explain why I have (unsuccessfully) tried to learn Irish Gaelic -- to better understand the Irish people. In one lesson early on, it was explained that Irish has no system to show possession. In other words, Irish has no words for "my" as in "my book," or "his" as…
ContinueAdded by Susan O'Dea Boland on November 22, 2015 at 1:30pm — 14 Comments
'Twenty Years A-Growing' on Great Blasket Island: A Review
So many of the stories which come to us out of Ireland are, quite simply, sad. From James Joyce's "The Dead" to Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes," we read of people who are, if not figuratively, then literally, impoverished. It is a lovely…
Added by Susan O'Dea Boland on November 9, 2015 at 11:30am — 3 Comments
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