After the Apocalypse: the Poetics of Irish Language Preservation

DOI

10.2991/emssese-19.2019.47How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multilingualism, pedagogy, Irish language, stutter, lies, linguistic loss, translation, minority language, Brian Friel, Nuala NíDhomhnaill, Doireann NíGríofa

Abstract

This article examines a number of Irish-language tropes operating in three literary texts: Brian Friel’s play Translations, first performed in 1980; Nuala NíDhomnaill’s poetry collection, Northern Lights (2018); and the poet Doireann NíGríofa’s bilingual Lies (2018). The title of this article derives from the association between these tropes of linguistic loss, and apocalyptic imagery – an association bolstered by an on-going debate on the viability of the language in contemporary Ireland.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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