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OverviewJailtacht 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 Chríost 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. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diarmait Mac Giolla ChríostPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9780708324967ISBN 10: 0708324967 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 08 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents1 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 Fail Gaelic and Sinn Fein Irish An invented tradition Medievalism 'my own native tongue' Jailtacht, Gaoltacht and Ceathru na Gaeltachta 7 Conclusions Language and the Symbolic Terrain in TerrorismReviewsMac Giolla Chriost's study of the role of Irish in the republican conflict in Northern Ireland - and, more broadly, the often-complex relationship between language and political violence - is nuanced, innovative, and deeply compelling. This is sociolinguistic study at its very best. Professor Stephen May, The University of Auckland Author InformationDr Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost, 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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