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This book is a brief guide to Irish lexicography and Irish lexicographers. It is scholarly, accurate and well written, and provides an overview of its subject from the middle of the seventeenth century to the present day. The author correctly states in his introduction that he does not seek to give us any new findings based on original research, but rather to gather and summarise the state of our knowledge. He is to be commended for this, for very often this kind of necessary scholarship is treated with less respect than a brief footnote in a weighty journal.
The study covers sixteen dictionaries in all, from Micheál Ó Cléirigh’s Foclóir nó Sanasan Nua, published in Louvain in 1643, to Niall Ó Dónaill’s fine dictionary of 1977. He discusses Irish–Irish, Latin–Irish, Irish–English and English–Irish dictionaries, most of which were published but some of which remain in manuscript form. Each chapter is carefully set out, giving us information on the lexicographer, the background of each work and its manner of composition, and Mac Amhlaigh does not shrink from evaluating each one in relation to its purpose or to other dictionaries, which often fed off one another. He also gives a brief selection of words from each work at the conclusion of the chapter, and many of these are illuminating, quirky or even still useful. ( from the History Ireland review)
2014, Cois Life
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