Jailtacht : The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
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Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0708324967
ISBN-13
9780708324967
Publisher
University of Wales Press
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University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2011
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
452 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.20 x 1.90 cms
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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.
Jailtacht 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.
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