The death of the irish language pdf

Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI: In it was declared one of the official languages of the European Union, gaining a new status in comparison with the past when it was regarded as a Treaty language only. Since this adoption many changes have happened and many projects have been initiated in the field of maintenance and death prevention of the Irish language.

The article analyses data gained from the… Expand. View PDF. Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. One Citation. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Linguistic security as a factor of sustainable development of a region on the example of Scandinavian Peninsula.

The article is devoted to the study of problems of linguistic security as a factor of sustainable development of a region; special attention is paid to the preservation of languages of indigenous … Expand. Irish and Scottish Gaelic: A European perspective. The popular and official description of the Gaeltacht as Irish-speaking rather than bilingual areas reflects the historically dominant discourse on language ideology in Ireland.

While there is little … Expand. Highly Influential. View 4 excerpts, references background. The Irish language from Tudor conquest to the famine. Here we trace the decline of the Irish language from a dominant postion in the s, to its catastrophic collapse after the Great Famine of the s.

In the intervening period, it had also come down in social stature. While Irish was the language of the native elite in the s, by the early 19th century, it was spoken principally by the poor in the rural west. Although the absolute number of Irish speakers, at four million people, may have been the highest ever, the language had retreated completely from the east of the country and collapsed even in the west after the s. Explanations for decline.

Here we ask why the Irish language first lost its pre-eminent position in Ireland and then declined almost to the point of extinction. Factors often cited are the famine of th s, emmigration and the introduction of English-speaking compulsory National Schools in the s. However, Irish had already lost its grip in much of the country by then. Padraig Lenihan argues that factors such as the dispossession of the native elite, and the de-coupling of the language from social prestige were key factors.

Fearghal McGarry notes that by the early 20th century, in Monaghan as in many other rural areas, the language was confined to the very elderly. Irish in comparison.