Manchán Magan: Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature [2021] hardback Condition:New and child of the Holocaust

and child of the Holocaust - must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present

sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo

Petey confronts his not so purr-fect

Grass redefined the role of `literary commitment'

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Manchán Magan: Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature [2021] hardback Condition:New and child of the Holocaust'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (such as the material put on the hooves of donkeys to stop them slipping in ice), or words to communicate with animals, or evocative plant words, or the gorgeous words for different amounts of light in the sky, or words that hint at different ways of seeing colour, or twilight words ' Manchan Magan is fascinated by words, particularly Irish words, with all