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JUMPING THE BORDER

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206 Seiten
Englisch
Phaeton Publishing Limitederschienen am07.12.2018
"I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying," writes Seamas OCathain (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection) of the Irish border - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives."mehr
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Klappentext"I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying," writes Seamas OCathain (Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, and former Director of the National Folklore Collection) of the Irish border - "a border policed by little corporals that was the bane of our lives."
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-908420-27-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum07.12.2018
Seiten206 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 145 mm, Höhe 222 mm, Dicke 16 mm
Gewicht443 g
Artikel-Nr.50070387
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Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. A Cub in Langfield; 2. Jumping the Border; 3. 'Felix Education'; 4. The 'No English' Rule; 5. Mind Your Slender 'R's; 6. In Pursuit of Irish - 'Ar Thoir na Gaeilge'; 7. A Queen's Postgraduate; 8. Beyond the Arctic Circle; 9. At Large in Lapland; 10. A Long Night; 11. Going Home; 12. A Personal Postscript: Family, Roots, & Music.mehr

Autor

Dr Séamas Ó Catháin was born in Drumquin, Co. Tyrone, and educated at Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh, and at Queen's University Belfast where he graduated: BA in 1960, MA in 1966, and PhD in 1977. Among other academic posts, he has been appointed Professor of Celtic, Queen's University Belfast in 1980; Associate Professor, University College Dublin in 1990; Dean, Faculty of Celtic Studies, University College Dublin from 1990 to 1996; Acting Head, Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin in 1995-1996; Acting Head, Department of Irish Folklore from 1996 to 2000; Professor of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin from 2000 to 2005; Interim Head, School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics in 2005 and 2006; and Director, National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin in 2006 and 2007. He has been Editor of 'Bealoideas', the Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society from 1996 to 2005, and has received numerous honours and awards, including the Gael Linn Gold Medal in 1960, the Dag Strömbäck Prize of the Gustavus Adolphus Akademi, Uppsala, Sweden in 1994, and in 1986 became a Knight (First Class) of the Order of the Lion of Finland.