I mBéal an Bháis
Subtitle: the great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
By: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Contributors: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Series: Famine folios / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
Publisher: Quinnipiac University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hamden, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
ISBN-13: 9780990468677
Subjects: Social aspects; Irish language; Famines; History
Other titles: I mbeal an bhais; Great famine & the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland; Great famine and the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland
Description: Perhaps the most fundamental cultural change in modern Irish history was the shift from Irish to English as the dominant vernacular of the people. While this change took place over an extended period of time, the demographic and social impact of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century was critical. This study examines closely the role of the Great Famine in the complex drama of linguistic transformation in modern Ireland. --Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady

Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Estimating the shift; title: Explaining the shift; title: Language & religious worship; title: Pragmatism & power; title: Against the tide; title: Post-famine perspectives; title: Survival/revival?