I mbéal an bháis: the great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh.
Material type: TextSeries: Famine folios / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace BradyPublication details: Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2015.Description: 51 pages : illustrations (some colored), portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780990468677
- 0990468674
- I mbéal an bháis
- Great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
- Great famine and the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
- 306.442 Ó T 23
- PB1214 .O88 2015
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Books | School of Celtic Studies Main Library | Books | 306.442 Ó T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available (Standard Loan) | 32442 |
Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).
Introduction -- Estimating the shift -- Explaining the shift -- Language & religious worship -- Pragmatism & power -- Against the tide -- Post-famine perspectives -- Survival/revival?
Perhaps the most fundamental cultural change in modern Irish history was the shift from Irish to English as the dominant vernacular of the people. While this change took place over an extended period of time, the demographic and social impact of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century was critical. This study examines closely the role of the Great Famine in the complex drama of linguistic transformation in modern Ireland. --Page [4] of cover.
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