IRELAND SELLS itself as the land of a hundred thousand welcomes. But the welcome is wearing thin for English speakers in the Gaelic- speaking region of Connemara.Butler, Katherine
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Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith This thesis illustrates that place-names are an essential resource for our understanding ofScottish medieval rural society, with a particular emphasis on M... McNiven,P Edward - 《University of Glasgow》 被引量: 3...
Was Gaelic always the language of Ireland? The first Celtic speakers came to Ireland around 500BC. There were people living here at the time but we know little about the language they spoke. We also know little of the version of Celtic that those arriving brought. It is important to note ...
In Ireland there are three key dialects in the North (Ulster), West (Connaught) and South (Munster). For example, the word for table in Connaught and Munster Irish is bord while in Ulster Gaelic it is tábla. Because of TV and improved communications, most Gaelic speakers are also now ...
famines and emigration led to a sharp decline in the population. Today, Irish is spoken as a first language by a small minority of the population of Ireland. The main concentrations of native Irish speakers are scattered along the west coast of Ireland. An Irish-speaking area is called...
The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh have large Gaelic populations too - nearly half of all Gaelic speakers live in the Lowlands. The Nova Scotia region in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and other regions in North America also boast proud Gaelic communities - established after the 18th and 19th...
It was first inhabited by British speakers, then colonized from Ireland, and later became part of the Scandinavian Lordship of the Isles until 1266, when the King of Norway ceded both Man and the Hebrides to Scotland. From then on, it became involved in the wars between England and Scotland...
The actual number of Irish speakers increased substantially during the first decades of the nineteenth century due to the rapid growth in the rural population. In 1835, Irish speakers were estimated at four million. This number consisted almost entirely of an impoverished rural population that became...
It was ultimately the introduction of a national education system in the 1800s in Ireland by the British government that prohibited Irish to be spoken in schools, leaving poor, uneducated Irish people as the primary speakers of the language.The Great Faminein the 1840s had the most devastating...