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A LECTURER at University of Limerick has translated William Shakespeare’s sonnets into Irish using iambic pentameter. Dr ...

If you know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, you probably already know that these three famous musicians were hugely inspired by its texts.

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Perhaps the most powerful shaper of English was William Tyndale. Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English is rich in theological and political implications.

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In my four years of studying at the Department of English and Humanities and taking several literature and linguistics courses, it was not until my final year, while doing the course Postcolonial ...