Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present

• Main Authors: O'Donoghue, Tom (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), O'Doherty, Teresa (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Education-History.; Linguistic minorities.; Civilization-History.; Historiography.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Education.; Minority Languages.; Cultural History.; Memory Studies.

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which native speakers of Irish were lo...