Wars of Words

The politics of language in Ireland, 1537-2004

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8075487
AutoresTony Crowley (0000-0002-5951-6111, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Páginas253
Data de publicação2005-04-14
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoWars of words (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273430.001.0001
OpenAlexW2498136015
Open LibraryOL22622267M
ISBN9780199273430
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23

This book studies the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Beginning with the Tudors and ending with recent language legislation in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the account set out in this text challenges received notions and reveals a complex, fascinating, and often surprising history. The linguistic aspects of the major issues that have united and divided Ireland are considered, including ethnicity, cultural identity, religion, governance and sovereignty, propriety and purity, memory, and authenticity. But rather than presenting the received wisdom on many of the language debates, this book revisits the material and considers new evidence in order to offer novel insights and to contest earlier accounts. Ranging across colonial state papers and the arguments of Irish revolutionaries, the writings of Irish priest historians and the works of contemporary Loyalist politicians, Gaelic dictionaries, and Ulster-Scots poetry, this book offers a re-reading of the role language has played in Ireland's political history. The text concludes by arguing that the Belfast Agreement's recognition that languages are 'part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland', must be central to the future social development of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland if the new voices on both sides of the border are to be heard

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · CONTEST · Identity (music · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Scots · Sovereignty · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · European · ireland · Irish language · Irlandais (Langue) · Language Arts & Disciplines · Language policy · Literary Criticism · Political aspects · Political aspects of Irish language · Politique linguistique · Sociolinguistics · Sprachpolitik · Taalpolitiek