Our tangled speech : essays on language and culture / / Aodan Mac Poilin

• Autore: Mac Póilin Aodán <1948->
• Pubblicazione: [Belfast] : , : Ulster Historical Foundation, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 491.62
• Soggetto topico: Irish language - History; Irish language - Dialects
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Taig talk -- Our tangled speech: Languages in Northern Ireland -- 'Something of a cultural war': Linguistic politics in Northern Ireland -- What about Ullans?: Ulster Scots and the Irish language -- Language maintenance, language revival -- 'Spiritual Beyond the Ways of Men': Images of the Gael -- Plus ça change: The Irish language and politics -- The Protestant Gaelic Tradition -- The Irish language in Belfast until 1900 -- Irish in Belfast, 1892-1960 -- Belfast in 20th-Century literature in Irish -- The Pobal Feirste Neo-Gaeltacht: Lessons to learn? -- Irish language television in Northern Ireland -- The BBC and the Irish language -- Irish and other origins of surnames -- Endnotes -- Index -- Copyright.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Irish language revival north and south of Ireland, examining its successes and failures. It gives a fascinating account of historical attitudes towards the Gael and examines the complexities of linguistic and cultural identity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Our tangled speech
• ISBN: 1-913993-22-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821796903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II