Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current Attitudes in Northern Ireland

Pritchard, Rosalind

doi:10.1080/01434630408666520

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“…Despite the Centre's attempts to be cross-community and appeal across the board through its name and funding bodies, the choice of Internet domain is highly significant. The Irish language is a divisive issue in Northern Ireland, and the choice of Irish is often made to identify with the nationalist community, who in turn are seen to identify primarily with the Republic of Ireland (cf., for example, Pritchard 2004). The use of the .ie domain rather than the .uk one (which is in fact in political terms the correct one) seems to signal that Irish language issues sit more comfortably within the Republic of Ireland domain rather than the UK one, and this small choice in itself reinforces the status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland as associated with one community rather than the other.…”

Section: Siopa (Shop)mentioning

confidence: 77%

Irish on the World Wide Web

Kelly‐Holmes¹

2006

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This paper reports on the process of searching with Irish words on the Irish language version of the Google Internet search engine. Five words from 'typical' and 'non-typical' domains for Irish are used, and the results are analysed in terms of the "authenticity" of the search process and results, the language usage in the sites found through the search process, and the domains represented by the results. The study identifies a number of problems encountered when searching for results in a 'small' language. It also indicates that the 'official' sector and other sectors closely related to language policy and planning are the main providers of monolingual Irish texts on the Internet, with a variety of mixed Irish and English approaches favoured by other providers.

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Section: Siopa (Shop)mentioning

confidence: 77%

Irish on the World Wide Web

Kelly‐Holmes¹

2006

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“…Even with the enhanced status of the Irish language since the Good Friday Agreement, outlined above, the language is still a contested one in Northern Ireland (cf. Pritchard, 2004), and the decision to advertise in Irish in this particular context is an even greater act of identity and departure from the default than in the case of Foinse. The paper is, however, not just aimed at Irish speakers in Northern Ireland 4 and achieves its circulation of about 4000 from sales in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.…”

Section: Advertising In Lámentioning

confidence: 93%

Minority Language Advertising: A Profile of Two Irish-language Newspapers

Kelly‐Holmes

Atkinson

2007

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper investigates the Irish-language adscape through an analysis of the profile of two Irish-language newspapers, Foinse , published in the Republic of Ireland, and Lá , published in Northern Ireland. The advertising in both papers is analysed in terms of products and services advertised, advertisers represented and language used. Our results indicate that Irish-language advertising in these papers tends to be confined to traditional domains, and to be used by advertisers who are complying with language planning directives. Beyond this, advertising in Irish is used to identify with certain communities, and its use by private sector advertisers, in a context in which there is a weak communicative motivation for doing so, tends to be mainly symbolic. Our small study shows that the respective advertising profiles of these newspapers do little to challenge common sense assumptions about the language, its role and its status in the respective sociolinguistic environments of both publications.

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“…Political polarisation has placed the Irish language within the 'two traditions' dichotomy. Irish has come to be seen as a correlate of Catholicism and Irish nationalism that has alienated Protestants and Unionists (Pritchard 2004). Official support for Irish remains divisive in the post-Agreement phase.…”

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Deliberating the Irish language in Northern Ireland: from conflict to multiculturalism?

McMonagle¹

2010

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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The Belfast Agreement (1998) contains a clause on respect and tolerance for linguistic diversity in Northern Ireland (NI). It is unsurprising that this clause was included given the role of Irish Á and Ulster Scots Á in identity politics in the region. The call for respect for NI's languages can therefore be seen as a type of conflict management. Renewed powersharing through consociational arrangements points to a relatively successful peace process, while inward migration has greatly increased in recent years. NI's sociocultural landscape has diversified to such a degree that respect for linguistic diversity should no longer be viewed solely as a means of reconciliation between just two communities; it can be treated as a move towards overall multiculturalism in the region. Yet language issues remain divisive, recently highlighted by the rejection of legislative protection for the Irish language. This article examines current attitudes towards linguistic diversity in NI, with reference to the comprehensive Northern Ireland Languages Strategy and the ongoing dispute over Irish. Viewed through the prism of linguistic diversity, it suggests that the basic consociational arrangements be re-thought to include a deliberative democratic model for language planning, in the long-term path from conflict management to multiculturalism.

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Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current Attitudes in Northern Ireland

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Irish on the World Wide Web

Irish on the World Wide Web

Minority Language Advertising: A Profile of Two Irish-language Newspapers

Deliberating the Irish language in Northern Ireland: from conflict to multiculturalism?

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