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Jailtacht - The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008 — The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
Jailtacht - The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008 — The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol sy'n bwrw golwg ar hanes Gogledd Iwerddon rhwng 1972 a 2008.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708324967
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708324967
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Jailtacht - The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008 — The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
- Sub Title
- The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
- Awdur / Author
- Chriost, Diarmait Mac Giolla
- Current Price ex VAT
- £19.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £19.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Printed on demand
- Availability Status (CY)
- Argraffir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2012-07-09
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 280 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Athroniaeth, Gwleidyddiaeth, Cymdeithaseg, Economeg a'r Gyfraith (yn Saesneg) | EN: Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Economics and Law (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Gwleidyddiaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Politics (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
1 Introduction •Context •Methods •Structure •Ethics •Subjectivity 2 Chronology •1972-1976, Internment •1976-1981, Protest •1981-1998, Strategic Engagement 3 Style •Texts up to 1976 •Texts, 1976-1981 •Texts, 1981-1994 •Texts, 1994-2008 4 Performance •Stages •Characters •Silences 5 Visual Grammar •Resources, 1981-1986 •Resources, 1987-1992 •Resources, 1993-2008 6 Ideology •Fianna Fáil Gaelic and Sinn Féin Irish •An invented tradition •Medievalism •‘my own native tongue’ •Jailtacht, Gaoltacht and Ceathrú na Gaeltachta 7 Conclusions •Language and the Symbolic Terrain in Terrorism
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Dr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost, appointed as Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University in 2004. He is currently a Reader there and a member of the School’s Research Unit on Language, Policy and Planning. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning, and, in particular, the situation of the Irish language.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970’s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, Mac Giolla Chriost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term ‘Jailtacht’, a deformation of ‘Gaeltacht’ - the official Irish-speaking district of the Republic of Ireland, to describe this unique linguistic phenomenon.
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