“GAEL AN TAOBH THUAIDH”: THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN BRENDAN BEHAN’S JOURNALISTIC WRITING.

The article explores Behan’s journalistic output in Irish as well as the role of Irish in his English articles for The Irish Press, published between 1951 and 1957. It pays attention to instances of multilingualism, heteroglossia, and hybridity in the corpus, further corroborating the idea of Behan...

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Publicado en:Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture Vol. 34; no. 67; pp. 28 - 46
Autor principal: Markus, Radvan
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Publicado: Charles University Prague, Faculty of Arts 2024
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