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Date
2009
Abstract
The people of Ireland have a complex relationship with the Irish language. Until the middle of the nineteenth century Irish was widely spoken throughout the country, but even before the watershed of the Great Famine in the 1840s, a linguistic and cultural division of labour had appeared whereby Irish speakers were predominantly found in rural areas and in farming, unskilled or family-based professions socially and economically peripheral to the largely anglophone economy of the growing urban areas, industry and large farms.
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peer-reviewed
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Citation
The Celtic Languges, Ball M & Müller N (eds);Chapter 12, pp539-586
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Sustainable Development Goals
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Book chapter
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/