Introduction: Language acquisition
1: Reforming the Word and the words of the Irish, 1537-1607
2: Language, God, and the struggle for history, 1607-1690
3: Education, antiquity, and the beginnings of linguistic
nationalism, 1690-1789
4: Culture, politics, and the language question, 1789-1876
5: Language and revolution, 1876-1922
6: The politics of language on the island of Ireland, 1922-2004
`Review from previous edition This book offers a simultaneously
sweeping and subtle view into the ways language has been
inextricably linked with notions of cultural, political, and
personal identity throughout modern Irish history... As impressive
as the breadth of Crowley's research is the beauty and
accessibility of his prose: the book proves enjoyable to the
historian or critic as well as the linguist. Indeed, War of Words
will encourage scholars in all
aspects of Irish Studies to recognize the centrality of the
language issue to nearly all aspects of Irish culture and
politics.
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Michael J Durkan Prize Review
`Crowley's War of Words is a valuable and stimulating book,
bringing together an impressive array of primary and secondary
sources from more than five centuries in a carefully crafted
argument... the defining account of a historical formation
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Chris Morash, Times Literary Supplement
`A sourcebook, a treasure trove . . . Crowley brings a welcome
sensitivity to the complexity of his subject . . . Tony Crowley's
War of Words and his earlier The Politics of Language in Ireland
are seminal texts for our understanding of how that dichotomy has
evolved over the centuries. [Crowley has] raised profoundly
important questions and provided a context in which they can be
thought about and planned for in the hope that future wars over
words will be
far less bitter and prolonged.
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Irish Literary Supplement
`a first-rate piece of scholarship that deserves to be read by any
student of Ireland and her history.
'
Contemporary Review
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