Read by Caroline Lennon.
An insight into the eighteenth-century poem made famous again by Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat.
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 (www.dil.ie).
