European green woodpecker though the latter is smaller and more slender with narrower wings and longer tail. The closely related, very similar Levaillant's woodpecker occurs only in north-west Africa. The European green woodpecker is a member of the order Piciformes, the woodpecker family Picidae and the genus Picus. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758. The scientific name is derived from the Greek "pikos", meaning 'woodpecker', and Latin "viridis", 'green'. There are four subspecies, with subtle and mostly clinal differences between them. In a recent study based on mitochondrial DNA analysis of subspecies by Perktaş, Barrowclough and Groth, it has been proposed
An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann preserved the last remnants of an Irish dialect and workings of rural life in an Irish-speaking community. One English translator of the book likens the significance of this work to humanity and restoring confidence in fragments of history. The work has been translated to standardized Irish in 1960, and then went onto be translated into English and made available to a much larger audience larger than only the Irish-speaking public. It is available on Amazon, Google Books, World Cat, and other platforms by consumer demand. An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann is a memoir