What's That as Gaeilge : An English-Irish Phrasebook by Garry Bannister

What's That as Gaeilge : An English-Irish Phrasebook by Garry BannisterWhat's That as Gaeilge? will help you to express in Irish the most common idioms in everyday English. The Irish equivalents suggested in this phrasebook are colourful and exciting, many with cultural, mythological and philosophical significance and even a few emerging from the Gaelscoileanna 'newspeak'. They will improve and enrich your spoken Irish skills for an upcoming oral examination or if you simply want to make your written and spoken Irish a

But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening

and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact

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A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance

to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife

resourcefully comic and generously humane

'Her writing is exquisite

and one young womans determination to rule her own destiny

abandoned by his wife Suzanne who died before him

and the obduracy of innocence

Just ask a bee

The words he used to describe the dark events - grotesque