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Feb 15, 2019 · The map shows places where answers most closely match your own, based on more than respondents who said they were from Ireland or Britain. How did we do? Let us know where you were raised, to...
Feb 15, 2019 · The New York Times has published a questionnaire about words Irish and British people use and how we pronounce them, and believes your answers reveal where you are from. Take the full quiz here.
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A detailed micro-dialectological study of spoken Irish in the Aran Islands, focusing on geographical and social variation linked to generations, genders, and level of education.
The Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects (LASID) created by Myles Dillon and Heinrich Wagner in the 1950s included valuable dialect information on Inis Meáin and on Inis Oírr but neglected Inis Mór. Indeed, there had been no dialect research conducted there since the late nineteenth-century work of Holger Pedersen and Franz Nikolaus ...
- The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923 by Jc Beckett
- Modern Ireland 1600-1972 by RF Foster
- Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985 by Terence Brown
- The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609-1969 by ATQ Stewart
- Armed Struggle: The History of The Ira by Richard English
- The Oxford Companion to Irish History by SJ Connolly
- Home Rule: An Irish History 1800-2000 by Alvin Jackson
JC Beckett's overview is an important milestone in Irish historiography, a lucid combination of factual information and reasoned analysis by one of the recognised giants of modern Irish history. Published in 1966, it is still a mine of information for today's students.
Roy Foster writes like a dream and it is difficult to decide which of his many books I like best. Unusually for a general survey, his Modern Ireland is difficult to put down. It manages the rare feat of combining clear and authoritative analysis, challenging new insights with a sense of humour and a command of the literary as well as the historical...
In this 1981 classic, Terence Brown gets to the very soul of contemporary Ireland, revealing the often bitter relations between the intelligentsia and politicians over the nature of the new Irish state. It was a battle that the intelligentsia ultimately won, but not before generations of Irish people had to endure the humourless and censorious nati...
A brilliant overview of Ulster Protestant identity, published in 1977 when the world was trying to understand the ferocity of Northern Ireland's troubles. The Narrow Ground is still unsurpassed as an accessible and readable introduction to this little understood subject.
A book whose time has come. At a historic moment when the IRA is redefining itself, a talented and courageous historian takes a non-judgmental approach and succeeds in getting inside the republican mind. This is an impressively fresh and balanced account, written in an accessibly clear style. A modern classic.
The bible of Irish history, providing facts and concise accounts of just about everything you ever wanted to know about Ireland, from the earliest of times to the present.
Forget about the gulf which ostensibly separates the constitutional politicians in Ireland and the men of violence. This wonderful new book demonstrates how the former were always willing to use the latter to gain their aims and how home rule was a way of reconciling Irish nationalism and, since the 1920s, Ulster Unionism to the British connection....
Discover the fascinating world of Irish English, a unique and captivating dialect that has evolved over centuries. Delve into its rich history, from the early development of the dialect to its influences from Gaelic and other languages.
Table 6.8: How Respondents of the Irish Language Survey 2013 Answered the Census Question, Profiled by Fluency Level – Northern Ireland. .....68 Table 6.9 How Respondents of the Irish Language Survey 2013 Answered the Census
