Description: Jailtacht : The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1, Paperback by Chriost, Diarmait Mac Giolla, ISBN 0708324967, ISBN-13 9780708324967, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Jailtacht closely analyzes the emergence of the Irish language among republican prisoners and ex-prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s to the present. This pioneering study shows how, despite the efforts of prison authorities to suppress the language, in some parts of the prison it became the exclusive language used by prisoners. Drawing on interviews with these prisoners, Diarmait Mac Giolla Chrost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term Jailtacht, a deformation of Gaeltachtthe official Irish-speaking district of the Republic of Irelandto describe this unique linguistic phenomenon. He goes on to trace the dramatic impact this politically rooted adoption of the language had on Irish society both at the time and in the subsequent decades.
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Book Title: Jailtacht : The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Viol
Number of Pages: 234 Pages
Publication Name: Jailtacht : the Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
Language: English
Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Celtic Languages, World / European, Europe / Ireland, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Author: Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
