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Schooling, the Gaelic League, and the Irish language revival in Ireland 1831–1922
Paedagogica Historica, 2021 In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to ...
Brendan Walsh
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Genealogy, 2018 Focusing on the verbal rather than the visual elements of early and more modern headstones in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, this essay will comment on a selection of Gaelic headstone inscriptions, highlighting such elements as word choice (whether
Laurie Stanley-Blackwell +1 more
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IRISH OVERDETERMINATION: STRATEGIES FOR ENTERING AND LEAVING THE GAELTACHT
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2018 Irish Overdetermination: Strategies for Entering and Leaving the Gaeltacht. Irish and Gaels are terms that refer to historical and contemporary peoples.
Diarmuid Ó GIOLLÁIN
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Factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland:Results from a national public survey [PDF]
, 2016 This paper investigates the factors influencing the likelihood of choice of Gaelic-medium primary education in Scotland by means of the analysis of a national survey of public attitudes conducted in 2012. Binary logistic regression is used to investigate
O'Hanlon, Fiona, Paterson, Lindsay
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Gaelic in the New Scotland: Politics, Rhetoric and Public Discourse [PDF]
Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2001 This article considers the position of the Gaelic language in the new political context in Scotland created by the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
McLeod, Wilson
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Learning and Remembering Gaelic Stories: Brian Stewart
Scottish Studies, 2013 Questions about how Gaelic storytellers have learned, remembered and performed their tales are key to understanding the Gaelic narrative tradition. This article examines the experience of Brian Stewart, a Scottish Gaelic storyteller, and the techniques ...
Carol Zall
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Language Usage and Social Categorisation in Brendan Behan’s Play The Quare Fellow
ABEI Journal, 2013 The language of Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow (1954), a play set in an Irish prison, is examined stylistically. This is done under the headings of naming, usage of Hiberno-English, of prison jargon, and of Gaelic.
Patricia A Lynch
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Phasal dynamism and the unfolding of meaning as text [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I explore the etic category of textuality and the emic category of Theme arguing that while Theme in English may simultaneously signal the point of departure of a clause with respect to the preceding text and also the ‘aboutness’ of the ...
Bartlett, Thomas Alexander Marks
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 2015 Based on a study of Gaelic and Scots in Scotland, this article asks the following question: are all languages saleable? Or more precisely, is everything in a language saleable? What elements are selected, by whom, and why?
James Costa Wilson
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Review: Politics of the Gaelic Language [PDF]
Scottish Affairs, 1999 Travellers in Glasgow Queen Street Station are surprised to see the notice Fdille gu Sraid na Banrighinn Welcome to Queen Street. Is this a bilingual city, like Brussels? No, it is not, for Gaelic speakers are a tiny minority in all parts of Scotland outside the Western Isles and Skye, and Glasgow is English-speaking and Glasgow-Scots-speaking.
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