Irish and English

Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900

James Kelly, Ciaran Mac Murchaidh

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829529
• Subtopic: Historical Theory & Criticism
• Index: History

The transformation of Ireland from a predominantly Irish speaking country to a primarily English speaking country was the most profound social change to take place on the island in the course of the 19th century. Yet the nature, manner, and course of that transformation are less than clear. In this collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines engage with the moving linguistic frontier that obtained in Ireland, in order better to understand the multiplicity of reasons for this linguistic shift, as well as to expand and to deepen an appreciation of the manner in which it took place. *** "This book consists of a collection of essays, which has the value of not trying to present a consistent or unified point of view, and which examines the interface between the Irish the the English languages through three hundred years. The essays range widely and encompass historical, literary, bibliographical and biographical concerns. We encounter a number of fascinating characters, both for their own personal history and for their impact on the Irish language." - Irish Literary Supplement, Vol. 33, No. 1, Fall 2013Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction: Establishing the context
• 1. ‘Solid divine and worthy scholar’: William Bedell, Venice and Gaelic culture
• 2. Cultural frontiers and the circulation of manuscripts in Ireland, 1625-1725
• 3. The popular influence of Foras feasa ar Éirinn from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
• 4. Versimilitude or subversion? Probing the interaction of English and Irish in selected warrants and macaronic verse in the eighteenth century
• 5. An Ghaelig nua: English, Irish and the south Ulster poets and scribes in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• 6. The Catholic Church, the Irish mission and the Irish language in the eighteenth century
• 7. Irish Protestants and the Irish language in the eighteenth century
• 8. Bilingualism, print culture in Irish and the public sphere, 1700—c.1830
• 9. A journey from manuscript to print — the transmission of an elegy by Piaras Feiritéar
• 10. Pious miscellanies and spiritual songs: devotional publishing and reading in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, 1760—1900
• Index