Taking literature in Irish out of the Gaelic ghetto

Bob Marley agus Bob Dylan as Gaeilge? Liam Carson, director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which starts this Thursday, explains how it seeks to place the Irish language and its literature at the heart of public life within a modern, energetic and multicultural framework


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Writer and critic best known for ‘Oxford Companion to Irish Literature’





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