Böcker av Tony Crowley

Presents a survey of the politics of language in Ireland in the colonial and post-colonial period. Ranging from Tudor proscription of Irish to contemporary legislation governing the rights of language users in the Ireland, this book argues for the centrality of an understanding of the role of language in Irish social and political history.

Providing direct access to original texts, this is an historical resource book which can be used as a case study in the relations between language and cultural identity.

Tony Crowley provides a new agenda for language study; one which acknowledges the fact that writing about history has always been determined by the historical context, and by issues of race, class and gender.