Manchán Magan

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Thirty-Two Words for Field (eBook, ePUB)

Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

Beschreibung

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.

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• Größe: 1.75MB

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Autor

Manchán Magan was an Irish writer, podcaster, and documentary maker. He wrote for the Irish Times on culture and travel, was presenter on the RTÉ podcast The Almanac of Ireland, and the author of the award-winning, best-selling Listen to the Land Speak (Gill, 2022). His illustrated books include Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers, and Other Irish Words for Nature (Gill, 2021) and Wolf-Men and Water Hounds (Gill, 2023).  He made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, and the Travel Channel, was on the board of Hometree, a native woodland and land regeneration charity, and Common Knowledge, a non-profit social enterprise teaching skills for a sustainable homelife. He was also an ambassador for The Rivers Trust and lived for a quarter-century in an oak wood, with bees, hens, and, occasionally, pigs in a grass-roofed house near Lough Lene, Co Westmeath. On October 2nd, 2025 Manchán died at the age of 55 of cancer. Considered a national treasure for his work bringing attention to the Irish language, Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins said of Magan and his passing: "Manchán truly lived an inspirational life and helped so many people to find a deeper meaning in their lives. . . Manchán's vision and understanding were not limited to Ireland or the Irish language, but to what we share and are connected to with all forms of life that live within native and indigenous cultures, languages and communities across the globe. . . He will be deeply missed."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804184042
• Artikelnr.: 70245103