A Silent War. Conflict Resolution and Language Policy and Planning in Northern Ireland and Quebec / Canada -- The Irish Language in the North of Ireland: Census Statistics Education -- The Irish Language and the Good Friday Agreement -- The Ratification and Application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Respect of Irish -- Irish Language Broadcasting since the Good Friday Agreement: Sop in ̀it na scuaibe? Sword or Ploughshare? -- The British Government Commitment to Enact the Irish Language Act. Submissions from voluntary and state sector Irish language organisations to the First Public Consultation on Proposed Irish Language Legislation for NI -- Submissions of the Political Parties to the First Public Consultation on Proposed Irish Language Legislation for NI -- Submissions from Key Public Bodies and a 20 per cent Sample of Individual Responses to the Public Consultation on the Proposed Irish Language Legislation -- Quebec v. The Rest in the Twenty-First Century. Coming-of-Age or Losing the Plot?
Summary
Janet Muller presents a unique contribution to understanding the interaction between language policy and planning and modern conflict resolution. Against the backdrop of Quebec/Canada since the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession, she provides an insider account from the North of Ireland, assessing through these two examples the interplay of conflict and language policy in the protection and promotion of languages in minoritised circumstances. The author outlines recent language policy trends in Quebec/Canada and details the place occupied by the Irish language in Northern Irish peace negotiations prior to and after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. She examines the extent to which promises of ₁a new era₂ for the language have been fulfilled and analyses development in language policy and planning through broadcasting, the implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the aftermath of the 2006 British government commitment to enact an Irish language Act. New materials and interviews relevant to both Quebec/Canada and the North of Ireland provide fresh perspectives on some of the challenges facing minoritised language communities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (252-268) and index
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