Minority Languages in Northern Ireland

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selected reading list

background information

• Great Britain. Northern Ireland Office. The Agreement: Text of the Agreement reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations on Northern Ireland, (10 April 1998), (Cmnd. 3883), [Good Friday Agreement / Belfast Agreement]. Belfast: HMSO.
  The Agreement addressed the issue of minority languages; the main outcome was the establishment of:
  The North-South Language Body
  (known in Irish as An Foras Teanga or in Ulster-Scots as Tha Boord o Leid)
  as one of the original six North-South Implementation Bodies

Main Pages

• Great Britain. Parliament. (2022). Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill, 142, 58/3, (6 December 2022), [PDF; 1381KB]. London: HMSO. ... [24145] - [Bill of Parliament]

• Northern Ireland Office (NIO). (2022). Explanatory Notes for the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill, 142-EN, 58/3, (6 December 2022), [PDF; 399KB]. London: NIO. ... [24146] - [Notes]

• McCoy, Gordon. (1997) 'Protestant Learners of Irish in Northern Ireland', in, Aodáin Mac Póilin (ed) (1997) The Irish Language in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Ultach Trust.

• MacGiolla Chríost, Diarmait. (2000) Planning Issues for Irish Language Policy: 'An Foras Teanga' and 'Fiontair Teanga'. CAIN: <http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/language/macgiollachriost00.htm>

• O'Reilly, Camille. (1997) 'Nationalists and the Irish Language in Northern Ireland: Competing Perspectives', in, Aodáin Mac Póilin (ed) (1997) The Irish Language in Northern Ireland. Belfast: Ultach Trust.

• Pritchard, Rosalind M.O. (forthcoming 2004) 'Protestants and the Irish Language: Historical Heritage and Current Attitudes in Northern Ireland', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Volume 25. [Pre-publication copy of forthcoming paper.]

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