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Book SynopsisTHIS 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.
Trade ReviewMac 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
Table of Contents1 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
