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    • 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. ...