Ireland's sesquilingual situation is thus the inverse of the 'normal' European situation, where English is the prestige language and the native language of lower prestige.

Tunicas and dalmaticas, although usually of some solid, bright colour, now began to be decorated all over with patterns, embroidered or stencilled in conventional designs.

And it's hard to learn, and it's hard to love / When you're giving me such sweet nothing

Last night, the moon was so bright I could have gotten a moonburn, he says.