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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Irish language"”.
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"Affirmed from under" : the Irish language education movement in Belfast
… its own education system based on the Irish language. Approximately one thousand children are currently doing their education through the medium of Irish in community-run schools. In addition, adult Irish speakers are building an Irish language infrastructure that creates "social …
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Irish language activism in West Belfast : a resistance to British cultural hegemony
… will focus on the nature and development of Irish language activism in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and the subsequent response of the British State when faced with this challenge to its cultural hegemony. The research is theoretically framed using Raymond Williams’ model of cultural hegemony …
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Irish language reading homework: Developing my practice through collaboration with parents/guardians and pupils.
… pupils and parents/guardians face in relation to Irish reading homework and the lack of resources available to teachers to assist them in this area. It aims to explore the experiences of pupils and parents/guardians of Irish reading at home as well as my own approach to assigning Irish reading …
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Enhancing my Teaching of Irish-Language Vocabulary through the use of Stories and Storytelling
… research study was to improve my teaching of Irish vocabulary using stories. I felt my teaching lacked energy and did not reflect my values of hard-work, commitment and respect for Irish language and culture. I learned Gaeilge trí Ghaeilge easily and without fuss. I truly believe that with the …
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The influence of the promotion of the Irish language on Ireland's socio-economic development
… of the influence of the promotion of the Irish language on Ireland's socio-economic development. The research question is based on a tradition of understanding of the link between the Irish language and Ireland's socio-economic development, stretching back at least 150 years. Various …
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How can I, as a Froebelian Teacher, practice Active and Experiential Learning in an Irish- Language Early Immersion Education (Luath-Tumoideachas) Setting?
… how I can improve and adapt my practice in language instruction in order to align my practice with my Froebelian values. This research project took place in an Irish-Language early-immersion, or tumoideachas, setting. It was undertaken in response to the identification of a …
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Dochas is Duchas, Hope and Heritage Gaelscoileanna; Transforming Power and Linguistic Ideology
… emerges, and their place in contemporary Irish society. Employing ‘machine theory’, the project examines the movement as both the product of, and also productive of power, desire, and competing social realities. Chapter one examines the position of the Irish language in Education …
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The reproduction of inequality in the Irish-medium education sector in Northern Ireland
… system in Northern Ireland for children of the Irish-medium education sector. Irish-medium Education (IME), despite being a thriving sector of education in Northern Ireland, remains marginalised, while the benefits of immersion education continue to be overlooked as a result of political and …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
… also discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the impact of settlement on language contact and language shift. It is clear that a number of geographical, historical, religious and political influences shaped the naming process in the area. …
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A New History of the Stowe Missal: Towards an Edition of the Stowe John and the Irish Tract on the Mass
… of the earliest surviving documents of the Early Irish church and is a key witness to the Early Irish liturgy, as well as one of the few manuscripts dating back to the Old Irish period to contain a number of continuous texts in the Irish language. This thesis investigates the origins and history …
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Rivalry in International Relations: A Mimetic Approach to the Case of the Rivalry in Northern Ireland (1963-2020)
… that of territory (1964-1998), and that of language (1998-2020). In contrast to the existing literature, the MRF shows that the atypical intractability of the Northern Ireland rivalry is a product of the extreme similarity of desires, rather than of their difference. Because intractable …
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Minority Language Advising in the Workplace: Contextual Practices, Relational Knowing, Mandate, and Change
An investigation of minority language advising in the organisational context is carried out in this thesis. The focus is on Irish language support for employees mandated by the Official Languages Act, 2003 to provide public services through Irish. The research participants are adult second-language …
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Legal Translation and Terminology in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937
… Government Translation section - on English-Irish legal translation and terminology, with particular focus on the period 1922-1937; a period bookended by the establishment of the Irish Free State and the enactment of Bunreacht na hÉireann (the Constitution of Ireland) in 1937. It aims to …
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Filiocht Sheamais Dhaill Mhic Cuarta: eagar criticuil ar leithchead da dhanta maraon le clar d'fhoinsi a shaothair
… and acquired a very great knoledge of the Irish language, Both writen and spoken. He had also 2 Brothers and 3 sisters of which he himself gives an acount m many of his pomes, m particler m his farewell to the Boyn, also m the elegy of his 2 Brothers, Bryan and Rodger with 2 of the 4,1)=* …
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A best-practice model for term planning
… a best-practice model for term planning for a language, based on the literature and on three qualitative case studies: TERMCAT (the term planning organisation for Catalan), Terminologicentrum TNC (the term planning organisation for Swedish) and the Irish-language term planning organisations, …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
… through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight into how a new political identity was rendered necessary by the Anglo-Irish. Victor Turner’s model of <em>Communitas </em>structures the argument as each stage of liminality represents a …
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The Development and Consolidation of the Gaeltacht Colony Rath Cairn, Co. Meath 1935-1948
… of Rath Cairn, Co Meath, when twenty-seven Irish speaking families, comprising 182 individuals, arrived at their new homes on fully equipped farms. After Fianna Fail had achieved an overall majority in the wake of the 1933 election, they turned to resolving the overcrowding and poverty in …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… the construction of a nationalist sense of Irish identity through the medium of popular culture specifically song lyrics throughout the nineteenth century. The English language songtexts that this work is based on provide evidence of the process of Anglicisation which, some would have it, …
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Irish as Symptom: Language, Ideology and Praxis in the Post/Colony
… exists about the rightful (non-)place of the Irish language in post/colonial society. It is a tautological narrative because the apparent unfitness of Irish for the exigencies of postmodern life both explains its disappearance and prevents its full revival (i.e., Irish is outmoded because it …
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Dlíthe Luath-Ghaeilge: Staidéar ar Theanga agus ar Dhátú Gluaiseanna agus Tráchtanna
This thesis examines the language and dating of later medieval Irish legal writing. Three texts are analysed: the ‘Marriage Disputes’ commentary, edited by Fergus Kelly (2014); the glosses and commentaries copied by Scribe 1 of Cáin Lánamna (ed. Charlene Eska, 2010); and the glosses on Gúbretha …
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