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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

by Manch Magan

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The Irish landscape, held in words

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The Irish landscape, held in words

The title frames Irish landscape vocabulary as a way of noticing what might otherwise go unnamed. Manch Magan connects the Irish language with nature, myth, and memory, while considering what can be lost when words fall out of use. The supplied description does not identify the terms discussed, but it establishes language and place as the book’s central concerns.

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  • Readers interested in the Irish language
  • Readers interested in landscape and place-based writing
  • Readers exploring connections between language and cultural memory

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Irish landscape vocabularyLanguage lossNature, myth, and memory

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NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

"What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is--an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and seeing which are fast vanishing."--Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?

In this lyrical exploration of the Irish language's deep-rooted connection to nature, myth and memory, bestselling Irish author Manch
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