Sophie

This book took me so long to readddd! I started it over a year ago as part of the reading I was doing for my Master’s dissertation, and once I got what I needed I kind of neglected it then. It provides a very thorough account of Gaeilge as a language over the previous centuries, from both a historical and a linguistic perspective. I personally found the history bits more engaging as I have little knowledge of linguistics and thus found those parts hard to connect with, and unfortunately this makes up a large part of the book. I definitely learned a lot about Gaeilge and the influence of English on it, and used some of this in my dissertation. I’d be curious to hear what the author thinks about the place of Gaeilge in Ireland now, considering the current revival and trendiness of the language, and his thoughts on how Gaeilge has evolved in the 11 years since this book was published.

I really wanted to like this because I loved Love in Colour, but it was really cringe and I couldn’t go on 😭😭