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Spreading the Words
3'31"
Read by Deirdre Lewis.
The Irish are fond of referring to an ‘ould yoke’, but how were words for ‘yoke’ used in Old Irish?
Spreading the Words’ is a series on the histories of Irish words from literature and everyday life written by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and produced in association with the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words and the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language.
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