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The book is a collection of essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world. By bringing together heterogeneous but at the same time fresh insights into diverse areas of Celtic scholarship, this volume aims to invite further research in the fields probed by the contributors in their chapters.

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These essays in the language, literature and history of the broadlyspeaking Celtic world range widely over time and space and subjectmatter. Subjects include the design of autobiographies in the earlyyears of the Irish republic, the publishing scandal around "Youth is mySin" by John Rowlands, the poetry of Francis Ledwidge, Gabriel Rosenstockand Sean à Ríordáin, "Sheepshagger" by Niall Griffiths, the Irish languagein science fiction, medieval Welsh law, and Pádraig à Cíobháin´slandmarknovel, "The Brightness Out There."

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Design of Irish-language autobiographies - Irish-language prose - Science fiction and poetry - Work of Francis Ledwidge - English- and Welsh-language fiction from Wales (the work of John Rowlands and Niall Griffiths) - Medieval Welsh law - Possible Polish origins of Irish-language modernist fiction

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Aleksander Bednarski is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has published on the work of Niall Griffiths, Gwyneth Lewis, Jerry Hunter and Lloyd Jones. Robert Looby is a lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He has written extensively on translation and censorship.

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