Here is a thread I'll put up paper on Irish socio-linguistics before uploading them to the server here.


First one: The 1901 and 1911 Irish Censuses: A Unique Source for the Historian
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/ ... 02.1-e.pdf


2nd: IRISH-SPEAKING IN THE PRE-FAMINE PERIOD: A STUDY BASED
ON THE 1911 CENSUS DATA FOR PEOPLE BO
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/2005 ... 103C05.pdf

3rd: Did the Great Irish Famine Matter?
http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/ ... famine.pdf

4th: A History of Protestant Irish Speakers
http://www.ultach.dsl.pipex.com/ForLear ... eakers.pdf

5th: The Politics of the Irish Language Under the English and British Governments
http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/docs/CP ... nguage.pdf

6th: Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current Attitudes in Northern Ireland
http://eprints.ulster.ac.uk/22310/1/Pro ... ish.RP.PDF

7th: From Catastrophe to Baby Boom – Population Change in Early Modern Ireland 1641-1741
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheIrishStory

8th: Religion and social conflict during the Protestant Crusade in West Limerick 1806-1849
http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/religi ... nflict.pdf

9th: The Irish Language in County Down
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/oirthear/down.doc‎

10th: The Anglicization of Ireland——A Model for the Linguistic Imperialist?
http://www.i-repository.net/contents/as ... 300056.pdf

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great lots of bedtime reading, thanks

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I'm only posting them here as there's just so many of them! I could have added 10 more. Just doing a search for Catholic clergy attitudes int he 18th century to the language yielded these

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The Irish Language in Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim
https://ia600306.us.archive.org/19/item ... Island.pdf

The Bards of Gael and Gall
https://ia600309.us.archive.org/1/items ... 512524.pdf

Geoffrey Keating, William Thoms, Raymond Williams, and the Terminology of Folklore: "Béaloideas" as a "Keyword"
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bits ... /2220/27(2)+5-37.pdf?sequence=1

God and the Tongue: Protestant Proselytism in Irish
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... 794,en.pdf

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