Loreto Todd

Loreto Todd is Professor of English at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. Born in Northern Ireland, she attended Queen's University, Belfast where her classmates included poet Seamus Heaney and writer Seamus Deane. She worked in England for many years, and was director of the programme of World English Research at the University of Leeds, England.

She has travelled extensively and lectured in Africa, America (North and South), Asia (India and Singapore), Australia (Brisbane and Sydney), the Caribbean and the Pacific (Hawaii, Solomans, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea). She has written 30 books, over 80 articles and chapters in books; over 100 reviews, short papers and has edited several journals.

During her travels, she has amassed a collection of texts, as well as audio and audio-visual recordings, from around the world. These total in excess of 12 million words and include: Conversations; Descriptions of language choice and use; Oral and written literature. She is currently working on this archive material and translating the Pidgin and Creole texts.


Celtic Names for Children

A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany.

Category: General Books
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £7.99
Celtic Names for Children

A dictionary of over 2,000 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany.

Category: General Books
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Item is currently out of stock
Paperback    £7.99
A Fire in his Head

A unique fantasy adventure that takes the theme of W.B. Yeats' poem The Song of Wandering Aengus as its motif and draws into its telling a rich Celtic legacy of myth, legend and language.

Category: Fiction
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £8.99
Green English

An exploration of the evolution of a nation and a language: English was grafted onto a Gaelic stem and was the language of wealth in Ireland for centuries. Paperback

Category: General Books
Publisher: O'Brien Press
 
Paperback    £8.99
The Little Book of Celtic Names

A dictionary of over 500 Celtic names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany.

Category: General
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Item is currently out of stock
Hardback    £7.99
The Perfect Name for Your Baby

A powerful and essential guide from a world authority on names. Incorporates history, meanings and significance.

Category: General Books
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Item is currently out of stock
Paperback    £7.99