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In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language
from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century
to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and
linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters
that focus on a specific period in the history of the language;
they each begin with a discussion of the external history and
position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to
investigate the important internal changes that took place at that
time. A History of the Irish Language makes available for the first
time material that has previously been inaccessible to students and
scholars who cannot read Irish, and will be a valuable resource not
only for undergraduate students of the language, but for all those
interested in Irish history and culture.
In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language
from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century
to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and
linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters
that focus on a specific period in the history of the language;
they each begin with a discussion of the external history and
position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to
investigate the important internal changes that took place at that
time. A History of the Irish Language makes available for the first
time material that has previously been inaccessible to students and
scholars who cannot read Irish, and will be a valuable resource not
only for undergraduate students of the language, but for all those
interested in Irish history and culture.
A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely
spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of
thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the
large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by
historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has emerged in
recent decades. North American Gaels, representing the first tandem
exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups, examines the
myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies
have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new
homeland. In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman, the
pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a
Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton
to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in
vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American
climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic
narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the
twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the
sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's
former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and
the enduring influence of tradition. Staking a claim for Gaelic
studies on this continent, North American Gaels shines new light on
the ways Irish and Scottish Gaels have left an enduring mark
through speech, story, and song.
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