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Language, resistance and revival republican prisoners and the Irish language in the North of Ireland / Feargal Mac ionnrachtaigh.

Title
Language, resistance and revival [electronic resource] : republican prisoners and the Irish language in the North of Ireland / Feargal Mac ionnrachtaigh.
Author
Mac Ionnrachtaigh, Feargal
Publication
London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description
1 online resource (xix, 257 p.) ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
Explores a key period in Irish history through the original and 'insider' accounts of key protagonists in the contemporary Irish language revival.
Subject
  • Long Kesh (Prison)
  • FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages
  • Irish language > Political aspects > Northern Ireland
  • Irish language > Social aspects > Northern Ireland
  • Protest movements > Northern Ireland > History
  • Prisoners > Northern Ireland
  • Language and culture > Northern Ireland
Genre/Form
  • Electronic books.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword by Phil Scraton; Introduction; 1 Colonialism, Culture and Ideology; 2 The Irish Language: Conquest, Suppression and Revival, 1169-1920; 3 'Promoting Sedition': The Irish Language and the 'Orange State', 1922-72; 4 Imprisonment, the Irish Context and the Language; 5 'Na Cásanna': The Cages of Long Kesh, 1973-84; 6 'Ar an Phluid': The H-Blocks, the 'Blanket Protest' and the Aftermath, 1976-85; 7 'Bringing the Language to the People': Revival; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; References.
ISBN
  • 184964845X (electronic bk.)
  • 9781849648455 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780745332277 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0745332277 (hardback) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780745332260 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0745332269 (pbk.) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 961638210
  • SCSB-12748341
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library