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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 ...
    • Discussion paper on Irish language radio broadcasting 

      Walsh, John; Day, Rosemary (NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate College, UL, 2018-01)
      This discussion paper presents the findings of the first phase of an ongoing study into the use of Irish language on the country s radio stations, other than those that broadcast exclusively in Irish. Under broadcasting ...
    • 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 and identities 

      O’Rourke, Bernadette; Walsh, John (Routledge, 2020-03-03)
      This chapter examines the links between the Irish language and identity in the discourses of new speakers. Despite the strong historical association of Irish with national ethnocultural identity, the chapter identifies a ...
    • 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 ...
    • Plean teanga chathair na Gaillimhe 2020 - 2026 

      Walsh, John; Ní Uigín, Dorothy; Callinan, Luke; Fogarty, Philip; Rowland, Hugh (Gaillimh le Gaeilge, 2021-06-30)
      Plean Teanga do Chathair na Gaillimhe arna ullmhú faoi Acht na Gaeltachta 2012/Irish Language Plan for Galway City as prepared under the Gaeltacht Act 2012.
    • Research on use of the Irish language on radio – Phase 3 

      Walsh, John (National University of Ireland Galway & Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, 2021-03-15)
      This research report is the result of the third phase of an investigation into the use of the Irish language on all of Ireland’s licensed radio services with the exception of stations broadcasting exclusively in Irish. It ...
    • 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 ...
    • Taighde ar úsáid na Gaeilge ar an raidió – Céim a 3 

      Walsh, John (OÉ Gaillimh & Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann, 2021-03-14)
      Tá an tuarascáil taighde seo ina toradh ar an tríú céim d'imscrúdú ar úsáid na Gaeilge ar sheirbhísí raidió ceadúnaithe uile na hÉireann, seachas na stáisiúin a chraolann go hiomlán i nGaeilge. Mhaoinigh Údarás Craolacháin ...