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.
