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For almost a thousand years language has been an important and
contentious issue in Ireland. The story of the relations between
the English and Irish languages is a complex one full of unexpected
alliances, strange accounts of historical origins, and explicable
forms of cultural identity. But above all it reflects the great
themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, and
religious and cultural difference. Collected here for the first
time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation
against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the
constitution of the Free State in 1922. Crowley's introduction
connects these texts to current debates, giving The Belfast
Agreement as a textual example and illustrating that the language
debates continue today. Divided into six historical sections with
detailed editor's introductions, this sourcebook includes familiar
cultural texts such as essays and letters by Yeats along side less
familiar writings including the Preface to the "New Testament" in
Irish.
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