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Author:

Ó Tuathaigh, Gearóid.

Title:

I mBéal an Bháis: the great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh.

Publisher:

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum/Quinnipiac University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2015

Description:

51 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Irish language--Social aspects.
Ireland--History--History--19th century.
Famines--Ireland.
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

Notes:

Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).

Contents:

Introduction -- Estimating the shift -- Explaining the shift -- Language & religious worship -- Pragmatism & power -- Against the tide -- Post-famine perspectives -- Survival/revival?

Summary:

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.

Series:

Famine folios

ISBN:

0990468674
9780990468677

OCLC:

(OCoLC)927364297

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)