What's in a name?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Irish has undergone change, like any other language. However, over the last 1000 years it has not changed to the extent that English has. Some spellings have changed, but most of those were done in the 1940s by Séamas Dáltún.

Cormac's Glossary, written in the 9th Century, is often considered to be the first non-Classical language dictionary. Ó Cléririgh (of 'Four Masters' fame) printed one in the 1640s and Richard Plunkett compiled a Latin-Irish dictionary in 1662. This was only in manuscript form, and was later used by Edward Lhuyd, the Welsh linguist. The first widely published English-Irish dictionary was printed in 1732 in Paris, and compiled by Ó Baeglaoich and Mac Cruitín.

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