The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922: A Sourcebook

by Tony Crowley and Tony Crowley

Book Overview

For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference.

Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the constitution of the Free State in 1922. Crowley's introduction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041515717x
• ISBN13: 9780415157179
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"