Wilson
McLeod
2020
Contents: Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- 1. Historical and sociolinguistic background -- 2. Policy, ideology and discourse -- 3. Foundations, 1872–1918 -- 4. Transition, 1919–44 -- 5. Stirrings, 1945–74 -- 6. Revitalisation, 1975–96 -- 7. Restructuring, 1997–2005 -- 8. Institutionalisation, 2006–20 -- Conclusion; Bibliography.
Contents: Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- 1. Historical and sociolinguistic background -- 2. Policy, ideology and discourse -- 3. Foundations, 1872–1918 -- 4. Transition, 1919–44 -- 5. Stirrings, 1945–74 -- 6. Revitalisation, 1975–96 -- 7. Restructuring, 1997–2005 -- 8. Institutionalisation, 2006–20 -- Conclusion; Bibliography.
2010
2008
Although 'pan-Gaelic' rhetoric has been a recurring theme in language movements in Ireland and Scotland since the late nineteenth century, there have been no significant efforts to bring Irish and Scottish Gaelic closer together in linguistic terms. Instead, contact between the two speech communities has been relatively limited and intranational forms of linguistic nationalism have been dominant. This article analyses some of the key debates and decisions in corpus planning for Irish and Scottish Gaelic since the late nineteenth century, showing how potential opportunities to promote convergence were overlooked and how linguistic modernization has tended to increase the divergence between the two forms. Against this historical backdrop, the article considers the extent to which the promotion of linguistic convergence would have been a realistic goal and whether such efforts would have harmed broader language revitalization initiatives in Ireland and Scotland.
Although 'pan-Gaelic' rhetoric has been a recurring theme in language movements in Ireland and Scotland since the late nineteenth century, there have been no significant efforts to bring Irish and Scottish Gaelic closer together in linguistic terms. Instead, contact between the two speech communities has been relatively limited and intranational forms of linguistic nationalism have been dominant. This article analyses some of the key debates and decisions in corpus planning for Irish and Scottish Gaelic since the late nineteenth century, showing how potential opportunities to promote convergence were overlooked and how linguistic modernization has tended to increase the divergence between the two forms. Against this historical backdrop, the article considers the extent to which the promotion of linguistic convergence would have been a realistic goal and whether such efforts would have harmed broader language revitalization initiatives in Ireland and Scotland.
2007
2003
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Political and cultural Background -- 2. Literary and intellectual culture in the Gaelic world -- 3. Scotland and Ireland: the vision of bardic poetry -- 4. Separation and breakdown -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
In this detailed and absorbing study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit during the late middle ages and early modern period. Many commentators have emphasized the strong cultural and political ties that bound the 'sea-divided' Gaels together during this era, when Scottish Gaels supplied crucial military forces to the Gaelic Irish chiefs, and poets and learned men travelled extensively between the two countries. Dr McLeod tests this view of a unified Gaelic 'culture-province' by examination of the surviving sources, especially formal bardic poetry. Although the evidence is patchy and occasionally contradictory, he is able to show that Ireland was culturally dominant. While Scottish Gaeldom attached great significance to the Irish connection, viewing Ireland as the wellspring of historical and cultural prestige, Irish Gaeldom, McLeod argues, perceived Scotland as distant and peripheral.
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Political and cultural Background -- 2. Literary and intellectual culture in the Gaelic world -- 3. Scotland and Ireland: the vision of bardic poetry -- 4. Separation and breakdown -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
In this detailed and absorbing study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit during the late middle ages and early modern period. Many commentators have emphasized the strong cultural and political ties that bound the 'sea-divided' Gaels together during this era, when Scottish Gaels supplied crucial military forces to the Gaelic Irish chiefs, and poets and learned men travelled extensively between the two countries. Dr McLeod tests this view of a unified Gaelic 'culture-province' by examination of the surviving sources, especially formal bardic poetry. Although the evidence is patchy and occasionally contradictory, he is able to show that Ireland was culturally dominant. While Scottish Gaeldom attached great significance to the Irish connection, viewing Ireland as the wellspring of historical and cultural prestige, Irish Gaeldom, McLeod argues, perceived Scotland as distant and peripheral.
