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Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language

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Colby Quaterly, 26 (4): 241--248 (1990)

Abstract

Language has always been used as a political and social weapon. It has been used to oppress a colonized or conquered people, and it has been used to police the borders of social class. In Ireland it has been used in both these ways. After the British had consolidated their colonization of Ireland, Gaelic was outlawed, and its use stigmatized a class of people who were conquered, oppressed, and impoverished.

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