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Sat 03 Mar 2007Flights of imagination in the mother tonguePoetry:The word "sanas" is defined as "whisper, hint, suggestion" but it is also the root of the word "sanasaíocht", meaning "etymology".In his current collection, Liam Ó Muirthile engages with the whispers of the past, but does so by way of engagement with life as it is and must be rather than as nostalgia: