Jailtacht
The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
Author(s) Diarmait Mac Golla Chríost
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
- December 2011 · 280 pages ·234x156mm
- · Paperback - 9780708324967
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708324974
- · eBook - epub - 9781783165117
About The Book
Endorsements
Mac 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
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 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 Terrorism