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Defective Carrots is ainm don leabhar.
Defective Carrots is ainm don leabhar.
Bhí an díon a bhí air ‘defective and dangerous’ agus thóg sé ceann de ‘other evidence of senile decay’.
Except that it contains more words, O’Reilly’s work is no better than O’Brien’s; in some respects, indeed, it is not as good....as regards helpful grammatical particulars, his work in quite as defective as O’Brien’s (O’Hickey 1904: 524).
Úsáideann Ó Conaire dearcadh liteartha Eorpach den chathair mar ‘defective society’ a chraplaíonn gach maitheas daonna, téama ar bhain sé leas éifeachtach as ina ghearrscéal Nóra Mharcais Bhig, nuair a chuaigh Nóra le striapachas agus le hólachán de bharr a bochtaineachta sa chathair.
Ón uair a thosaigh sé ag obair leis an nGúm i 1930 bhí na heagarthóirí anuas air de dheasca botún teanga agus, faoi Bhealtaine 1939, bhí cúig leabhar bunaidh leis diúltaithe ar roinnt cúiseanna: ‘unsuitable material, defective Irish, in one case plagiarism’ (Comhad G222).
Ba léir don Ard-Aighne nach raibh gach deontas clúdaithe ag an Acht seo: ‘Not only is there no specific statutory authority to pay these but there is not a formal written scheme in existence setting out the rules for payment of these grants.’ B’fhacthas d’Oifig an Ard-Aighne go raibh lúb ar lár ann agus amhras an raibh aon údarás dlíthiúil le híoc na ndeontas tithíochta: “That is not to say that the State may not be under a duty to pay these grants in certain cases having led people to act to their detriment in the expectation that they would be paid, but the underlying legal basis for them is nonetheless defective.” Chuir an tArd-Aighne é fhéin, John Murray, aguisín leis an chomhairle a chur a Oifig ar Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta.