'The Speech Being Irish, The Heart Must Needs Be Irish'

A concise look at colonial mechanisms of suppression of indigenous language, customs and superstitions in the context of 18th century Ireland. The inception of this episode is due to my long interest in (old) languages as well as etymology combined with the current debacle in Northern Ireland surrounding the use of the Irish language.Sources:Colby, T.F., Instructions for the interior survey of Ireland, lithographed at the Ordinance Survey office, Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1825Curtis, L.P., Anglo-Saxons and Celts: a study of anti-Irish prejudice in Victorian England, Bridgeport CN, 1968 Dixon, H., 'John O'Donovan', An Leabharlann 2:1, 1906Durkacz, V.E., The decline of the Celtic languages: a study of linguistic and cultural conflict in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland from the Reformation to the twentieth century, Edinburgh, 1983Fulford, T. & P.J. Kitson (eds), Romanticism and colonialism: writing and empire, 1780 - 1830, Cambridge and New York, 1998 Hindley, R., Irish in the nineteenth century: from collapse to the dawn of revival, in R. Hindley, The death of the Irish language: a qualified obituary, London, 1990MacDonagh, O., The politics of Gaelic in O. MacDonagh, States of mind: a study of Anglo-Irish conflict, 1780 - 1980, London, 1983O'Donovan, J., The topographical poems of O'Dubhagain agus O'Huidrin, Dublin, 1862O'Donovan, J., A grammar of the Irish language, published for the use of the senior classes in the College of St Columba, Dublin, 1845Ó' Loinsigh, P., The Irish language in the nineteenth century, Oideas 14, 1975Spenser, E., A view of the state of Ireland from the first printed edition (1633), ed. A Hadfield and W. Maley, Malden MA, 1997Swift, C., John O'Donovan and the framing of early medieval Ireland in the nineteenth century, Bullán 1:1, Spring 1994     Click here if you’d like to send me a comment or question. Thank you.Support the showMédecins Sans FrontièresUnicefPEN International