Season 3, Episode 4: New Speakers of Irish featuring John Walsh and Bernadette O’Rourke

Celtic Students Podcast

San eipeasóid seo, labhraíonn Alexandra Philbin le John Walsh (Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh) agus Bernadette O’Rourke (Ollscoil Ghlaschú), údair an leabhair ‘New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival?’ (2020). Pléann siad coincheap an nuachainteora in Éirinn agus i gcoitinne, an próiseas taighde agus an leabhar agus tugann siad comhairle do scoláirí a bhfuil suim acu sa tsochtheangeolaíocht agus i dtéama an nuachainteora. Tá an eipeasóid seo dátheangach (Gaeilge agus Béarla).

In this episode, Alexandra Philbin speaks to John Walsh (NUI Galway) and Bernadette O’Rourke (University of Glasgow), authors of the book ‘New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival?’ (2020). They discuss the concept of the new speaker in Ireland and in general, the research process and the book and they give advice to students who are interested in sociolinguistics and new speakers. This episode is bilingual (Irish and English).

This episode was recorded in April 2022.

Host: Alexandra Philbin

Guests: John Walsh and Bernadette O’Rourke

Languages: Irish and English

Music: “Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy” by Sláinte, CC BY-SA 3.0 US (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/), available from freemusicarchive.org.

Links to initiatives, organisations and people mentioned in the episode:

John Walsh

Bernadette O’Rourke

Bernadette and John’s book ‘New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival?’ (2020)

Bernadette’s book on Irish and Galician ‘Galician and Irish in the European Context: Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages’ (2011)

COST Action IS1306 on New Speakers

Muda lingüística - Joan Pujolar’s ‘Linguistic mudes: An exploration over the linguistic constitution of subjects’ (2019)

Eoin Mc Evoy - Seo Mo Spás

Article by John on ‘National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish’ (2019)

John’s book ‘One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022’ (2022)

Pádraig Ó Duibhir’s book ‘Immersion Education: Lessons from a Minority Language Context’ (2018)

Justin McCubbin’s PhD thesis ‘Inimircigh agus an Ghaeilge: Idé-eolaíocht agus Cleachtas Teanga Lucht Inimirce na Gaeilge in Éirinn’ (2011)

Erin McNulty’s research on Manx

Anik Nandi’s research