foinsí Ghaeilge (Irish sources) at The National Archives

It is a thoroughly unremarkable occurrence to see a letter in The National Archives addressed ‘To my most loving brother’. Literally thousands of pieces of correspondence bear some version of this rhetorical commonplace. Only one, however, does so in Irish. Writing in 1618, Brian Coghlan of King’s County – present day Offaly – addressed a … Continue reading foinsí Ghaeilge (Irish sources) at The National Archives