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  1. #136570

    Chun béim a chur ar luach na fianaise deir sé8: ‘Desiderius is of unusual importance in the history of Irish prose …(we are) seldom left in doubt as to what the author actually wrote’; agus arís9: ‘Conry’s simplicity can be appreciated if we bear in mind the temptations which beset a writer of Irish in his day, and especially a writer who was well versed in older literature : (1) a partiality towards the archaic, in vocabulary, in grammar, and in spelling, (2) a tendency to the heaping up of alliteration (any vowel alliterates with any other vowel)’ .

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    Dúradh gurb é an taithí a bhí ag Státrúnaí nua-cheaptha an Tuaiscirt ar na cruinnithe úd ná gur geall le ‘a mobile torture chamber’ a bhí iontu ‘where he is beset by a man with a grievance who does not seem to have been listening to what he has been saying’.