This paper first provides a short overview of the history of the Irish language and proceeds to examine two sorts of attitudes displayed by Irish writers towards what Yeats called « his national language ». On the one hand, the members of the Irish Renaissance and of the Gaelic League participated both in the struggle for Independence and in the attempt to bring back Gaelic to life ; on the other hand, people like Joyce and Flann O'Brien took their distances with what they considered as a limitation just as damageable as the hegemonic domination of the English language. As a result, they sought to invent a new language which would subvert both the nationalist ideology and the colonial power. Today, contemporary Irish novelists follow in the...
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Pour ce mémoire de recherche, j’ai choisi d’étudier la notion du surnaturel dans la culture et la li...
The Irish language is not often associated with an urban population, but in the early years of the X...
Belief in the innate 'superiority' of the Irish language has often been identified among native spea...
In the early twentieth century a number of Irish nationalists considered the revival of the Gaelic l...
Colonial domination has been exercised by many means, exhibiting varied forms and expressions, one o...
The case of the Irish language could be considered an anomaly – a nation that, in most of its territ...
Until the mid-fifties, most texts written in the Irish language were printed in the 'Irish' type (do...
The evolution and status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland remains complex and controversial...
For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but abov...
The title of this paper paraphrases a quote by Patrick Pearse, an Irish poet, writer, nationalist an...
My paper analysed the origins of the Irish language, where it came from, whay kind of people the Cel...
Since the 12th century, Irish historical texts have reflected the political ideology of their author...
Like Yeats, Joyce found little usable tradition in Irish literature. He found the poetry of Mangan p...
International audienceHaving been a British colony until 1921, Ireland has a special status within E...
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Common...
Pour ce mémoire de recherche, j’ai choisi d’étudier la notion du surnaturel dans la culture et la li...
The Irish language is not often associated with an urban population, but in the early years of the X...
Belief in the innate 'superiority' of the Irish language has often been identified among native spea...
In the early twentieth century a number of Irish nationalists considered the revival of the Gaelic l...
Colonial domination has been exercised by many means, exhibiting varied forms and expressions, one o...
The case of the Irish language could be considered an anomaly – a nation that, in most of its territ...
Until the mid-fifties, most texts written in the Irish language were printed in the 'Irish' type (do...
The evolution and status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland remains complex and controversial...
For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but abov...
The title of this paper paraphrases a quote by Patrick Pearse, an Irish poet, writer, nationalist an...
My paper analysed the origins of the Irish language, where it came from, whay kind of people the Cel...
Since the 12th century, Irish historical texts have reflected the political ideology of their author...
Like Yeats, Joyce found little usable tradition in Irish literature. He found the poetry of Mangan p...
International audienceHaving been a British colony until 1921, Ireland has a special status within E...
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Common...
Pour ce mémoire de recherche, j’ai choisi d’étudier la notion du surnaturel dans la culture et la li...
The Irish language is not often associated with an urban population, but in the early years of the X...