Language Policy and Social Reproduction
Subtitle: Ireland 1893-1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 12, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780198235187
First sentence: In the early part of the twentieth century Irish was spoken by less than 18 percent of the population, and as in many of the indigenous minority language communities in Europe, these speakers were situated mainly in the western peripheral regions of the state.