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I mBéal an Bháis: the great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh.
- Title
- I mBéal an Bháis: the great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh.
- Author
- Ó Tuathaigh, Gearóid
- Publication
- Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
- Description
- 51 pages : illustrations (some colored), portraits, facsimiles; 28 cm.
- Summary
- Perhaps the most fundamental cultural change in modern Irish history was the shift from Irish to English as the dominant vernacular of the people. While this change took place over an extended period of time, the demographic and social impact of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century was critical. This study examines closely the role of the Great Famine in the complex drama of linguistic transformation in modern Ireland. --Page [4] of cover.
- Series Statement
- Famine folios / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Alternative Title
- I mbeal an bhais
- Great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
- Great famine and the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Pictorial Work
- Note
- Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Estimating the shift -- Explaining the shift -- Language & religious worship -- Pragmatism & power -- Against the tide -- Post-famine perspectives -- Survival/revival?
- ISBN
- 9780990468677
- 0990468674
- OCLC
- 927364297
- SCSB-12328350
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library