Browsing Gaeilge (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Walsh, John"
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Building a language community through radio in the age of social media: the case of Raidió na Life
Day, Rosemary; Walsh, John (Intellect, 2020-04-01)This paper investigates the motivations of volunteers in participating in broadcasting on a community radio station in the age of social media. The station chosen broadcasts in Irish, a minority language in Ireland, although ... -
Enactments concerning the Irish language, 1922 - 2016
Walsh, John (Clarus Press on behalf of the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 2016)The Official Languages Act (henceforth OLA) of 2003 gave limited expression to the constitutional status of Irish as first official language by obliging public bodies to provide a restricted number of services in Irish. ... -
An Gael agus an raidió: Craoltóireacht na Gaeilge tar éis bhunú an stáit
Walsh, John (Comhar, 2018-09)Léiríonn an caidreamh idir an chraoltóireacht agus an Ghaeilge san 20ú Aois go leor idé-eolaíochtaí casta maidir leis an gcainteoir dúchais agus leis an bhfoghlaimeoir, agus faoin gceangal idir tógáil na féiniúlachta agus ... -
Irish pirate radio 1978-1988: How political stasis allowed unlicensed radio to flourish and innovate
Walsh, John; Greene, Brian (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-10-12)The history of pirate radio in Ireland remains understudied by comparison with other countries with histories of unlicensed broadcasting. This is surprising given the extent and longevity of a large pirate radio scene ... -
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
Walsh, John (John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ... -
New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space
O'Rourke, Bernadette; Walsh, John (De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-18)While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now ... -
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations
Walsh, John; Ní Dhúda, Laoise (De Gruyter, 2015-05-28)This paper examines the experiences and motivations of 'new speakers' of Irish in the United States. 'New speakers' of Irish refer to those whose first language is not Irish but who use the language regularly and fluently. ... -
‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life
Walsh, John; Day, Rosemary (Routledge, 2021-07-19)This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be ... -
The role of emotions and positionality in the trajectories of ‘new speakers’ of Irish
Walsh, John (SAGE Publications, 2017-07-28)Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the emotional experiences and positionality of new speakers of Irish, fluent and regular speakers who were not raised with ...