Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Jailtacht (eBook, ePUB)

The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland. Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, Mac Giolla Chriost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term 'Jailtacht', a deformation of 'Gaeltacht' - the official Irish-speaking districts of the Republic of Ireland, to describe this unique linguistic phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783165117
• Artikelnr.: 44014698

Autorenporträt

Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost was appointed Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University in 2004. He is currently a Reader there and a member of the School's Research Unit on Language, Policy and Planning. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning, and, in particular, the situation of the Irish language.