Jailtacht : The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008

ISBN-13: 9780708324967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 280 str.

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Opis

"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 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. 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."