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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Placenames"”.
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Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria
… their own people. I argue that urban language—placenames, graffiti, stories about the city, metaphoric quips, and creative play with pronouns and deictics—are repositories of alternative historical knowledge and creative, quotidian contestation to power in which complex and painful pasts are …
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Colonialism, Continuity and Change: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Relationship between Colonialism and Iron Age and Medieval Settlement in the North Channel
… The appearance of a large number of Old Norse placenames also indicates settlement involving several social orders. This heavily influenced the socio-political makeup of the region to at least the fourteenth century. In the third episode, a domination phase was also reached in Ulidia. It …
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Logainmneacha Cheatharlach
… 1933). Sa bhliain 1937, foilsíodh an leabhar Placenames o f Co. Carlow, leabhar a leag amach saothar Uí Dhonnabháin beagnach ar an iomlán ar bhealach soléite (O'Toole 1937). Níl fághta de Ghaeilge dhúchasach Laighean anois ach corrfhocal Gaeilge a mhaireann ar aghaidh i mBéarla na ndaoine agus …
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Cás-staidéir ar logainmneachaibh agus ar threabhainmneachaibh dar tús ‘L’ ó fhoinsíbh Gaoluinne agus Laidine idir c.400-c.1800 A.D.
… ar a dtugtar, Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames [HDGP]. Cuirfear an foclóir so in áit an Onomasticon Goedelicum (OnomG) le hEdmund Hogan: .i. an seana-fhoclóir. Roghnaíog na hainmneacha a chuireag san áireamh sa tráchtas de réir ord aibítre na n-ainmneacha mar atháid leagaithe amach …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
This thesis is an analysis of place-names in a number of parishes in Mid-Ulster. The key aim of the research project is to use evidence to work out the original meaning of the names. The thesis also discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the …
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Historic settlement on Unst, Shetland. An holistic study of abandoned settlements on Unst, Shetland utilising historical archaeology and prospection approaches
A holistic study of abandoned house sites on the island of Unst was conducted to address the extent to which perceptions of historic settlement on Shetland are supportable. These perceptions cast long lived nucleated settlement as the normative traditional form of historic settlement, and dispersed …