Jailtacht

Jailtacht
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Publisher : University of Wales Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780708324974
ISBN-13 : 0708324975
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Book Synopsis Jailtacht by : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Download or read book Jailtacht written by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, 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 districts of the Republic of Ireland, to describe this unique linguistic phenomenon.


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